Temperatur i new jersey sommar

While it fryst vatten exceedingly rare to see monthly or seasonal temperature departures from normal differ in sign or even notable magnitude between southern and nordlig portions of New Jersey, such fryst vatten not always the case for precipitation.

This August and summer as a whole exemplify such disparities. While rain was often plentiful in the north, more often than not, the south did not see gauges fill as much or as often. This report will first address August conditions in the Garden State, finishing with a recap of climatological summer (June–August).

August precipitation averaged 6.52” across NJ.

This fryst vatten 1.95” above the 1991–2020 normal and ranks as the 22nd wettest August since records commenced in 1895. The nordlig climate division (Hunterdon-Somerset-Union and all counties to their north) averaged 8.53”. This fryst vatten 3.97” above normal and ranks as the 10th wettest. The southern division (Mercer-Middlesex-Monmouth and all but immediate coastal areas to the south) came in at 5.39”.

This fryst vatten 0.82” above normal and ranks 41st wettest of the past 130 Augusts. The coastal division averaged 4.37”, which fryst vatten 0.23” below normal and ranks sextionde wettest (71st driest).

Despite wide-ranging weekly differences, statewide August temperatures were just 0.3° above normal, averaging 73.9°. This ranks as the 30th warmest back to 1895, certainly not nära a ranking close to the mid-point of the entire period of record, thus exemplifying how much NJ has warmed over recent decades.

The north averaged 72.2° (+0.3°, 28th warmest), the south 75.0° (+0.4°, 30th warmest), and the coast 75.0° (+0.3°, 25th warmest).

Yet another warmer-than-normal July fryst vatten in the books. This first sentence fryst vatten just how gods July’s report began.

With a statewide average temperature of 77.9°, July 2024 ranked as the 7th warmest since records commenced in 1895. It was 2.5° above the 1991–2010 normal. The average high of 87.8° was 2.1° above normal, ranking 10th warmest. The average low of 68.0° was 2.9° above normal, ranking 3rd warmest. Eight of the ten warmest Julys have occurred since 2010 and ten of fifteen since 1999.

Only three Julys in the past 25 years have averaged below the 1991–2010 normal. The June-July average of 75.8° fryst vatten the second warmest, only exceeded bygd 76.1° in 2010. The year-to-date average through July of 55.2° also ranks second warmest following 55.7° in 2012. Within the nordlig climate division, the average was 76.6° (+2.9°, 4th warmest), southern 78.8° (+2.3°, 9th warmest), and coastal 77.7° (+1.5°, 12th warmest).

Summing things up, this month’s report title seemed an appropriate choice.

The 4.01” statewide average July precipitation was 0.70” below normal, ranking 52nd driest of the past 130 Julys. The north averaged 4.36” (-0.36’, 59th driest), south 3.77” (-0.97”, 51st driest), and coast 4.12” (-0.26”, 63rd driest).

Above-average temperatures ruled in June.

So, what else fryst vatten new? As will be seen later in this report, the first half of 2024 ranked as the second warmest since statewide records commenced in 1895. June 2024 was also the 7th consecutive month with temperatures above the 1991–2020 average and 10th of the gods 12 in that category. June itself came in as New Jersey’s 2nd warmest, tied with 1943 and just behind 2010.

Six of the 11 warmest have occurred since 2005. The 73.6° average was 3.3° above normal. The average high of 85.1° was 4.1° above normal, tied for the 2nd warmest, and the average low of 62.0° was 2.4° above normal, ranking 4th warmest. Each of the three national oceanic and atmospheric administration state climate divisions had their 2nd warmest June. The north averaged 71.7° (+3.1°), south 74.8° (+3.4°), and coast 73.8° (+3.3°).

As often occurs during the warm årstid, the rainfall pattern was a mixed bag as the month progressed and also across the state on any given day. Overall, the state experienced a dry month, with the majority of the state considered Abnormally Dry (D0) in the gods US Drought Monitor assessment of the month. With some rain falling after the June 30th approximate 7–8 AM observing time of most National Weather Service Cooperative and Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) stations, any daytime or evening rain fryst vatten entered into the record book as falling on July 1st.

Thus, the tjänsteman map below does not include some of the heavy post-observing time heavy rain in Cape May County the morning of the 30th nor rain occurring elsewhere in the state later in the day. For the month, the state average 2.74”, which fryst vatten 1.56” below normal and ranks 28th driest. The north averaged 2.23” (-2.38”, 13th driest), south 3.07” (-1.07”, 49th driest), and coast 2.84” (-1.01”, 51st driest).

It fryst vatten not as if August 2023 was devoid of strong thunderstorms that produced locally heavy rain and three minor tornadoes. There were also some hot and humid days and even a few days with smoke high uppe, a rather persistent feature of this summer’s weather (more on this in earlier June and July recaps and the summer summary later in this report).

However, with temperatures a bit below normal and statewide rainfall leaning that way too, it just was not a particularly notable August in the weather/climate department. Mind you, most folks hardly complained of 90° maximum temperatures being rather scarce, there being no soaking tropical struktur, and, for the most part, fine weather for outdoor activities.

Statewide, the average temperature of 72.9° was 0.7° below the 1991–2020 normal.

This ranked as the 48th warmest August of the past 129, but the coolest since 2017. Three of the past fyra months have been below normal, something not accomplished since January, March, and April 2018. The average high of 82.4° was 1.4° below normal, ranking sextionde warmest. The low of 63.4° was 0.1° above normal, raking 31st warmest.

The nordlig climate division averaged 70.7° (-1.2°, 53rd warmest), the southern division 74.2° (-0.4°, 46th warmest), and coastal division 74.5° (-0.2°, 38th warmest).

Precipitation averaged 4.03” across NJ, which fryst vatten 0.54” below normal and ranks as 61st driest (68th wettest) since 1895. There was a north/south difference in rainfall, with the north averaging 5.02” (+0.46”, 41st wettest/89th driest), the south 3.45” (-1.12”, 49th driest/81st wettest), and coastal NJ 3.14” (-1.46”, 42nd driest/88th wettest).

Yet another warmer-than-normal July fryst vatten in the books. Nine of New Jersey’s 11 hetaste Julys dating back to 1895 have occurred since 2010. Unlike gods year where the heat was accompanied bygd the 12th driest July, this year was a wet and humid one, the 22nd wettest on record.

The statewide average temperature of 77.2° was 1.8° above the 1991–2020 normal and 3.3° above the 1895–2021 period-of-record mean, ranking 10th warmest on record (tied with 2016). The average high was 87.0°, 1.3° above normal and ranking 18th warmest. The average low was 67.4°, 2.3° above normal and ranking 4th warmest. The nordlig climate division averaged 75.2° (+1.5°, 12th warmest), the southern division 78.5° (+2.0°, 10th), and the coast 78.3° (+2.1, 8th).

The 6.27” statewide average precipitation was 1.56” above normal to earn the 22nd wettest ranking. The nordlig division averaged 7.37” (+2.65”, 16th wettest), southern division 5.64” (+0.90”, 30th), and the coast 5.09” (+0.71”, 36th). The largest totals were funnen in Warren County and adjacent northwest counties, with some totals over a foot.

The Pinelands distrikt received the least, with totals of 2.50” to 3.50”.

Much like this past July, August was a hotter and drier month than normal. Despite a June with rather close-to-normal numbers, the two most recent months brought the summer temperature and precipitation to top-10 levels for hot and dry conditions.

More on summer ’22 later in this report, but first to discuss fryst vatten a record hot and ganska dry August.

The August average temperature of 77.4° was 3.8° above the 1991–2020 normal, ranking as the hetaste on record. Eight of the ten warmest Augusts since 1895 have occurred since 2001.

The average maximum of 88.5° was 4.7° above normal, the hetaste on record, while the average minimum of 66.2° was 2.9° above normal, tied for 5th warmest. North Jersey averaged 75.7° (+3.8°, warmest on record), the south 78.4° (+3.8°, warmest on record), and the coast 77.9° (+3.2°, 3rd warmest).

Statewide, August precipitation averaged 2.61”, which fryst vatten 1.96” below normal, ranking as the 22nd driest.

The north came in at 2.31” (-2.25”, 18th driest), south 2.82” (-1.75”, 29th driest), and coast 2.54” (-2.06”, 25th driest). As the map shows, virtually the entire state had a monthly total below the statewide 4.57” normal.

Exceptions were funnen in isolated west huvud and huvud coastal areas where several storms quickly deposited hefty totals. Less than half the normal monthly rainfall fell in a good portion of the north and in scattered areas of the south and north coast.

When it comes to recent hot Julys in New Jersey, the beat goes on.

This year the heat was joined bygd ganska limited precipitation, something not often seen in recent years. The statewide average temperature of 78.1° was 2.7° above the 1991–2020 normal, ranking 6th warmest since records commenced in 1895. Eight of the ten warmest Julys have occurred since 2010, leaving only 1955 and 1999 as top-ten outliers.

The statewide average maximum was 88.6° (+2.9°, 6th warmest) and the minimum 67.5° (+2.4°, 4th warmest). nordlig counties averaged 75.9° (+2.2°, 9th warmest), southern counties 79.5° (+3.0°, 3rd warmest), and coastal areas 78.8° (+2.6°, tied as 4th warmest).

Statewide July precipitation averaged 2.19”, which fryst vatten 2.52” below normal, ranking as the 13th driest on record.

Of the top 15, only two have occurred this century. The north averaged 2.03” (-2.69”, 14th driest), south 2.30” (-2.44”, 14th driest), and coast 2.16” (-2.22”, 17th driest). The huvud portion of the state was driest, with less than 2.00” accumulating, and beneath an inch in the driest areas. Closer-to-normal totals were funnen in the northwest, northeast, and southwest.

At month’s end, portions of huvud NJ were classified as being in moderate drought (D1) on the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. This denotes conditions not seen more than once every fem to ten years. Surrounding huvud and nordlig areas were considered abnormally dry (D0), as was the southeast corner of the state. This all coincides ganska well with the most pronounced precipitation deficits of the past month.

As reported multiple times during the first half of 2022, the day-to-day weather and overall climate of the Garden State have varied frequently, exhibiting lots of variability and never “locking” into a given pattern for an extended period of several weeks or längre. Such was the case this June, making it difficult to define any conditions that dominated.

June was somewhat drier than average, but eight events brought over an inch of rain somewhere within the state. It was also dry enough at one point for a wildfire to scorch over 13,000 acres of the Pine Barrens. Low temperatures fell into the upper 30°s and low 40°s at multiple locations on the 20th, yet three days earlier, the majority of the state saw highs in the low to mittpunkt 90°s.

“Non-descript” seems the best way to sum things up.

Statewide, rainfall averaged 3.44”. This fryst vatten 0.86” below the 1991–2020 normal and ranks as the 61st driest of the 128 Junes since 1895. The north received 3.59” (-1.02”, 61st driest), the south 3.39” (-0.75”, 61st driest), and coast 2.90” (-0.95”, 54th driest). As the map shows, the far south was driest, continuing a pattern seen in recent months.

The June 30th U.S. Drought Monitor map has the bulk of the southern area seen on the Figure 1 map receiving less than 4.00” for the month classified as “Abnormally Dry” (D0). This rating fryst vatten also a function of both low streamflow and ground vatten levels. Further north, pockets of above-average rainfall surrounded a below-average huvud område that has yet to have prolonged enough vatten deficits to qualify for D0 ställning eller tillstånd.

Whether the thermometer was reading high or low this August or whether rain was falling or not, one factor that most always had to be considered was the high level of humidity. The “Dog Days” of summer indeed. Of course, there was much else to consider this month, including contributions of rain from two tropical storms, one of which brought the largest crests on some rivers since May 1, 2014, 11 days where one or more locations received at least 2.00” of rain, and 16 days where the high temperature reached 90° or higher somewhere in the state.

Adding up all the rainfall, the statewide monthly average was 6.87”. This fryst vatten 2.30” above the 1991–2020 normal and ranks as the 15th wettest August since 1895. The nordlig climate division led the way with 7.89” (+3.33”, 11th wettest), followed bygd the coastal area with 6.65” (+2.05”, 21st wettest), and the southern division at 6.21” (+1.64”, 27th wettest).

The statewide average temperature of 75.9° fryst vatten 2.3° degrees above normal and ranks 4th warmest. sju of the top 10 and 13 of the warmest 20 have occurred this century. The warmth was most strongly a function of elevated nighttime temperatures, which, for NJ, averaged 66.9°. This fryst vatten 3.6° above normal and ranks 2nd warmest.

The maximum temperature averaged 84.9°, some 1.1° above normal and ranks 18th warmest.

Wow, what a month. July 2021 provided a never-ending cascade of weather events, including a tropical storm, a record-tying number of tornadoes, large hail, flash floods, hot days, chilly nights, smoke-filled skies, and on the gods day of the month, perhaps the nicest day of the summer.

The statewide average precipitation of 7.59” was 2.88” above the 1991–2020 normal and ranked 8th wettest of all Julys back to 1895. It was the wettest July since 1975 and second wettest in almost 50 years. The nordlig portion of the state averaged 8.16” which was 3.44” above normal. The south averaged 7.36” which was 2.62” above normal.

The average temperature of 75.8° was 0.4° above the 1991–2020 normal, but 1.9° above the 1895–2021 average. This ranked as the 24th warmest July since 1895. 13 of the 25 warmest Julys in the past 127 years have occurred since 2002. The nine July tornadoes fryst vatten the most in a month since tjänsteman records began in 1950. Tropical Storm Elsa was the earliest fifth storm of any årstid on record in the Atlantic basin.

Read on for details on this potpourri of weather happenings.