We’re only one week into March, and some towns and cities in New Jersey already have been saturated with an entire month’s worth of rain, according to data following the latest in a string of storms to hit our region.
With yet another storm taking aim at the Garden State this weekend, many other places could hit their normal monthly rainfall total by Sunday morning.
As of Thursday morning, these 15 towns and cities have already been soaked by a full month’s worth of rain, according to data from the Rutgers NJ Weather Network and the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, a group of trained weather observers known as CoCoRaHS:
- Surf City (Ocean County): 5.00 inches
- Eatontown (Monmouth County): 4.89 inches
- Point Pleasant Beach (Ocean County): 4.83 inches
- Bradley Beach (Monmouth County): 4.79 inches
- Sea Girt (Monmouth County): 4.76 inches
- Manasquan (Monmouth County): 4.75 inches
- Wildwood Crest (Cape May County): 4.73 inches
- Neptune Twp. (Monmouth County): 4.73 inches
- Oceanport (Monmouth County): 4.70 inches
- Ocean Twp. (Monmouth County): 4.68 inches
- Neptune City (Monmouth County): 4.61 inches
- Long Branch (Monmouth County): 4.56 inches
- Middle Twp. (Cape May County): 4.56 inches
- Estell Manor (Atlantic County): 4.54 inches
- Berkeley Twp. (Ocean County): 4.52 inches
Based on historical averages, most areas of New Jersey typically get between 4 and 4.5 inches of rain during the entire month of March.
At the National Weather Service’s three main weather reporting stations in New Jersey, one — Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona — is already close to hitting its normal monthly rainfall total, according to data from the agency.
Atlantic City has measured 4.36 inches of rain during the first seven days of March, and its normal monthly total is 4.52 inches.
Weather service data shows Newark Liberty International Airport has already gotten 2.89 inches of rain this month, which is 1 and a quarter inches away from its normal March total of 4.13 inches, while Trenton Mercer Airport in Ewing has collected 2.99 inches of rain this month and needs only a little more than an inch to hit its normal March total of 4 inches.
New storm on the way
Forecasters say a new storm system drifting across New Jersey on Saturday is expected to drop a half-inch to 1.5 inches of rain across the state from Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning. Although significant flooding is not expected, strong gusty winds will likely be blowing on Sunday and Monday, after the storm moves away from our region.
“There is a 30-50% chance that wind gusts exceed 45 mph, which may lead to sporadic tree damage,” the weather service’s Mount Holly forecast office said Thursday afternoon. “Given the already saturated ground, tree damage may be greater than usual with these speeds.”
Current weather radar
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