Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Absecon, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Atlantic City International Airport, NJ, 3 miles west of Absecon at 60 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 67°F; January is the coolest, at 43°F and 25°F. August is the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 46.0 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (23.8 of 46.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 61 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (26); a normal September there has highs of 79°F and 3.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 23 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 101 nights a year. Snowfall averages 17.4 inches a year, most of it in February. That 46.0 inches is more than at 13 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (25%). Atlantic City, 7 miles southeast, has its own station (Atlantic City, NJ): 43.8 inches a year, 2.2 less than here, and a July average high of 80°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Atlantic City, NJ, 9 miles southeast, averaged 72°F in September and 40°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Atlantic City tide gauge, 9 miles from Absecon, has risen 1.67 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1911 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 104 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 115 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Absecon: 56 thunderstorm wind reports, 22 flash floods, 13 heavy rain events, 12 floods and 12 lightning strikes. They killed 1 person and injured 15, and the NWS estimated $1.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on October 14, 2003. August has had the most flash floods, 10 of 22. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 70 have had fewer than Absecon.

Flood insurance policyholders in Absecon's ZIP code 08201 have filed 161 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $4.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 44 claims (27% of all) and $1.7 million, then Flooding in 1984 with 38 and December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 11. 65% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 249 have fewer than Absecon.