NJ Weather Info

Tag: arctic air

  • The Record Cold of February 2015

    Figure 1 Weather Prediction Center’s (WPC) surface analysis on February 15th, 2015 at 7 pm. Note the strong high pressure system over southern Ontario. This system would deliver the coldest air of the coldest February on record to the Bellcrest section of Toms River, NJ. Overview During the first half of February 2015, temperatures in…

  • The Record Cold of December 1989 in Toms River, NJ

    Following a rare Thanksgiving Day snowstorm on the New Jersey shore in 1989, arctic air plunged into the region, beginning the coldest month on record for the Bellcrest section of Toms River, NJ (where temperature records extend back to 1978). For the next five weeks, wave after wave of bitter arctic air spilled into the…