Extreme Record Weather in NJ
In the last six months, NJ has seen record extreme amounts of heat, cold, and precipitation. Whether you’re preparing your home for the upcoming record setting hurricane season or still trying to recover from Mother Nature’s fury during the winter & spring, Seashore Construction has got you covered. Read below for more info on these new record numbers.
-HEAT-
AccuWeather.com reports with temperatures soaring into the 80s and even 90s across the Northeast, Wednesday felt more like summer than early April. Numerous record highs were set, and some places experienced their earliest 90-degree temperature reading. A southwesterly flow of air pumped the unseasonable warmth into the Northeast on Wednesday. Temperatures exceeded typical early April highs by 25 to 35 degrees. Over two dozen of the major reporting sites in the Northeast set record highs on Wednesday. A sampling of these is given below with the old record in parenthesis. Boston, New York City and Atlantic City are among the places that experienced their earliest 90-degree temperature on Wednesday.
April
• New York City’s Central Park: 92° (89° from 1929)
• Providence, R.I.: 92° (86° from 1991)
• Atlantic City, N.J.: 91° (84° from 1991)
• Washington, D.C.’s Dulles Airport: 91° (84° from 1991)
• Boston, Mass.: 90° (86° from 1991)
• Trenton, N.J.: 89° (88° from 1929)
• Portland, Maine: 85° (78° from 1991)
• Bridgeport, Conn.: 81° (73° from 1997)
-RAIN-
With the latest storm, this month became the wettest March on record for New Jersey. Long Hill Township in Morris County, which is expected to receive more than a foot of rain, was the soggiest spot in the state. Here’s a look at how Long Hill compares with other locales.
March
• 10.62 inches— New York City, at Central Park, month to date
• 9.00 inches — New N.J. state record with one day to go
• 7.80 inches — old N.J. state record set in 1912
• 7.27 inches — Philadelphia month to date
• 4.12 inches — Parsippany
• 3.86 inches — Jersey City
• 3.50 inches — Haworth
• 3.42 inches — Basking Ridge
• 3.38 inches — Newark
• 3.25 inches — New Brunswick
• 3.17 inches — Hillsborough
• 3.13 inches — Charlotteburg
• 2.99 inches — Woodbine
• 2.79 inches — Wayne
• 2.61 inches — High Point
• 2.29 inches — Upper Deerfield
• 2.27 inches — Sicklerville
-SNOW-
February 2010 became the snowiest month ever for New Brunswick and that’s just the latest New Jersey record to be broken this past winter of seemingly endless snow. It was the snowiest winter season on record in Atlantic City and National Park, N.J., where observations are made for the nearby Philadelphia International Airport. State climatologist David Robinson says that by 7 a.m. Friday March 26th, New Brunswick had 37 inches in February alone. That easily tops the previous one-month record of 29 inches, set in February 1899.
