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by hail in Emerson, NJ, June 15, 2009
NJ State Climatologist
July 2, 2009
In many a year, people complain that we "never have a spring anymore", claiming conditions go right from winter to summer weather. Such words certainly were not heard this year, as for the past month those of us in the state climate office have been asked repeatedly when spring will end or if summer will ever arrive. It was a rather dismal June, though not a total washout; more on this below. Looking back, May got off to a wet start, there was a mid-month freeze in some areas, and a lack of any appreciable heat. There were four days of plus 90° F weather in late April, and earlier than that, short-lived 70°+ temperatures arrived within days of the early March snowstorm. Yes, it has been a lengthy spring roller coaster ride!
June clouds were plentiful, statewide precipitation was generous and temperatures were cooler than average. While, at times, this interfered with agriculture, construction, lawn mowing and sport schedules, the good news is that we enter the core of summer without concerns of drought and not having spent much on air conditioning. There were no major weather-related problems in June. Still, there were local impacts from a number of episodes of flash flooding of roadways, rivers and basements, lightning strikes in several cases damaging or destroying structures, and there was the cleanup resulting from the Bergen hail storm (more on this below).
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