Tag: December 1989

  • 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…