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The effects of Hurricane Irene in New Jersey in 2011 included about $1 billion in damage to 200,000 homes and buildings. This made it the costliest disaster in the state's history, [1] though this was dwarfed by Hurricane Sandy the following year.
Fay was the first landfalling cyclone since Sandy in 2012 and the first fully tropical cyclone to make landfall in New Jersey since Irene in 2011. [100] August 4, 2020 – Tropical Storm Isaias moved up the east coast of the United States, bringing wind gusts of 75 mph (120 km/h) to Cape May, as well as Berkeley Township. [101]
Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011. The ninth named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Irene originated from a well-defined Atlantic tropical wave that began showing signs of organization east of the Lesser Antilles.
Three more members of New Jersey Task Force 1 from Edison have been deployed to North Carolina to assist following the destruction caused by recent hurricanes in the area.
With the hurricane season upon us, emergency management officials could potentially mandate evacuation orders. The New Jersey Office of Emergency Management works closely with the federal, state ...
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.
People are evacuated from a neighborhood in Little Ferry, New Jersey, one day after Hurricane Sandy slammed the East Coast on Oct. 30, 2012. Sandy took the lives of 71 people, directly, and 87 ...
0935 UTC (5:35 a.m. EDT) – Hurricane Irene weakens to a tropical storm and simultaneously makes its eighth landfall on Brigantine Island, New Jersey, with winds of 70 mph (115 km/h). [ 4 ] 1200 UTC (8:00 a.m. AST) – Tropical Storm Jose reaches its peak intensity with winds of 45 mph (70 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1006 mbar ...