Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Cresskill, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Teterboro Airport, NJ, 8 miles southwest of Cresskill at 9 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 26°F. July is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 46.4 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (24.2 of 46.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 29 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 89 nights a year. That 46.4 inches is more than at 15 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (29%). Demarest, under a mile north, has its own station (Dobbs Ferry-Ardsley, NY): 51.3 inches a year, 4.9 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 14 miles southeast, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 14 miles from Cresskill, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 793 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Cresskill: 333 thunderstorm wind reports, 319 flash floods, 108 floods, 32 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 8 people and injured 24, and the NWS estimated $186.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 110 mph, on October 7, 2013. July has had the most flash floods, 83 of 319. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 387 have had fewer than Cresskill.

Flood insurance policyholders in Cresskill's ZIP code 07626 have filed 91 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $2.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ida in 2021: 28 claims (31% of all) and $2.2 million, then April 2007 Nor'easter in 2007 with 13 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with 13. 79% 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, 199 have fewer than Cresskill.