Tag: History
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Historic 1st Snows at Jersey Shore: Facts and Figures
The first snow of the season at the Jersey Shore is usually something to smile about. It’s light and fun. Maybe just a few flakes in the air or a quick snow shower that melts fast. It makes you think of cozy things: a warm fire, snow on the sand at the beach, or a…
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You’ll want to watch my series on climate change in New Jersey
Occasionally, while I’m doing a public talk, I’ll be asked “What are your thoughts on climate change, Joe?” And, usually, I’ll respond with something like “I’m not here to tell you my thoughts on climate change. Let me tell you what’s going on.” Climate change is not a religion. You don’t believe in it or…
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2025’s Ocean was so Warm in NJ, It Almost Broke a Record
The summer tide came rolling in this year much warmer than 2024. In fact, the water we enjoyed was tropical enough to be one of the warmest on record at the Jersey Shore. From June to September, peak beach season, the ocean water temperature from the gauge at Atlantic City’s Steel Pier averaged 71.4 degrees.…
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The Awe-Inspiring Fathers of Meteorology (Plus Joe’s 2 Weather Dads)
This story originally appeared in Shore Local Newsmagazine on June 12, 2025. Meteorology, the study of weather, is a pretty new science, even though the word comes from Ancient Greek, meaning “the study of things high in the air.” In 340 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote a paper called “Meteorologica,” but after that, not…
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NJ’s ‘February 4’ of storms begin cold, maybe snowy, stretch
Read the full article in Shore Local magazine here! By the time you read this Feb. 13 edition of Shore Local magazine, you will have lived through four separate storm systems since Feb. 4. The Feb. 4-5 snow event deposited a few tenths of an inch of snow in our area, which turned into a…
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Why the Jersey Shore is the birthplace of modern meteorology
Without Camp Evans, in Wall, Monmouth County we may not have two of weather’s most basic tools today, satellite and radar. While we take for granted rapidly updating pictures across the globe and the ability to detect rain, snow or sea breezes in an instant, most of human history relied on just looking up or…