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About two and a half hours later, the former hurricane moved ashore New Jersey near Brigantine in Atlantic County, just north of Atlantic City, producing wind gusts as strong as 91 mph (146 km/h). Over two million households in the state lost power in the storm, 346,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, [ 2 ] and 38 people were killed.
October 26, 1872 – A tropical storm moves across New Jersey with winds of 45 mph (70 km/h). [14] August, 1873 – Though it never made landfall on the United States, the Great Nova Scotia Cyclone approached the state, prompting the U.S. Army Signal Corps to issue a hurricane warning from Cape May to New Haven, Connecticut. [15]
Tropical storm-strength wind speed pounded the Jersey Shore this week. Good thing temperatures were warm. ... NJ power outages: ... Sea Girt: 57 mph at 10:20 p.m. Belmar: 53 mph at 10:35 p.m. ...
Low wind shear and warm sea surface temperatures were conducive for strengthening, and perhaps rapid deepening. [8] Late on October 22, a Hurricane Hunters flight observed winds of 40 mph (64 km/h) in a rainband well removed from the center of circulation, prompting the NHC to upgrade the depression to Tropical Storm Sandy. [9]
The National Weather Service predicted between 2 inches and 3 inches of rain for much of New Jersey, along with high winds and coastal flooding.
He said the project would be built 64 miles (100 kilometers) off the New York coast and 37 miles (60 kilometers) from New Jersey. In July, Community Offshore Wind submitted plans to build an ...
The Sea Bright–Monmouth Beach Seawall is a seawall located along the Jersey Shore in the Monmouth County, New Jersey towns of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach. It roughly runs north-south direction along 4.7 miles (7.6 km) of the barrier spit of land along the lower Sandy Hook peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Shrewsbury River estuary.
Wind gusts reached as high as 95 mph (153 kph) in Maine, and blustery weather continued Wednesday. Philadelphia, which sits on the Delaware River upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, experienced its ...