Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Franklin Park, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is New Brunswick 3 SE, NJ, 7 miles east of Franklin Park at 111 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 66°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 23°F. June and July are the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 49.5 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.0 of 49.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 24 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 111 nights a year. Snowfall averages 29.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 49.5 inches is more than at 33 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (65%). Monmouth Junction, 4 miles south, has its own station (Hightstown 2 W, NJ): 47.6 inches a year, 1.9 less than here, and the same July average high, 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Newbold, PA, 23 miles southwest, averaged 80°F in July and 37°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July. Sea level at the Bergen Point tide gauge, 26 miles from Franklin Park, has risen 1.86 ± 0.13 inches per decade from 1981 to 2024, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 18.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 114 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 478 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Franklin Park: 266 thunderstorm wind reports, 90 flash floods, 69 floods, 32 heavy rain events and 21 lightning strikes. They killed 3 people and injured 13, and the NWS estimated $74.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on September 4, 2001. August has had the most flash floods, 33 of 90. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 241 have had fewer than Franklin Park.

Flood insurance policyholders in Franklin Park's ZIP code 08823 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1989, and were paid $64,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 57% 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, 24 have fewer than Franklin Park.