Hazardous surf along the beach in Belmar (Monmouth County) on August 25. (Photo credit: Doug Robinson)
August Overview
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From May 28 to June 10, 2014, 15 aspiring meteorologists from Rutgers University headed on a journey to the central US on the hunt for tornadoes. This trip was a Rutgers course designed to teach students how to forecast severe weather, and actually witness severe storms first hand, with the possibility of seeing a tornado.
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Season to date
With more than a third of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season behind us, many may assume this season has been quiet. However, the two hurricanes already named mark the first time since 1992 that the first two named storms have reached hurricane strength and the first time there have been two hurricanes by this date since 2008. With the peak of the tropical season yet to come, the question is whether the heart of the season will be active or quiet.
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Extremely heavy rain drenched portions of the Mid-Atlantic during the daytime hours on August 12 until after sunrise on the 13th. Starting off in the Washington-Baltimore area and moving up into central Long Island, a narrow ribbon of rainfall exceeding 5”, and over 10” in a few locales, resulted in flash flooding that resulted in water rescues and many damaged roads and vehicles. Excessively heavy rains, occasionally accompanied by lightning, traveled up a frontal boundary that was associated with an unusually strong August low-pressure system situated over the Great Lakes.
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Sunset at Sandy Hook (Monmouth County). (Credit: Dave Robinson, ONJSC)
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Heavy rain falling at Rutgers' Livingston Campus in Piscataway on July 15. (Credit: Dan Zarrow, ONJSC)
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Flash flooding in Stewartsville (Warren County) on June 13. Photo courtesy of Dave Dabour
June Overview
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Photo: Will this Fourth of July holiday bring stormy or sunny skies to the Jersey Shore?
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Flash flooding in the parking lot of the Collegetown Shopping Center in Glassboro, NJ.