Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Moonachie, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Teterboro Airport, NJ, in Moonachie 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 (21); 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%). Fairview, 3 miles southeast, has its own station (New York Cntrl Pk Twr, NY): 49.6 inches a year, 3.2 more than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station The Battery, NY, 10 miles south, averaged 74°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the The Battery tide gauge, 10 miles from Moonachie, has risen 1.16 ± 0.02 inches per decade from 1856 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 66 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 977 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Moonachie: 427 flash floods, 405 thunderstorm wind reports, 104 floods, 38 lightning strikes and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 15 people and injured 44, and the NWS estimated $317.8 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, 137 of 427. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 448 have had fewer than Moonachie.

Flood insurance policyholders in Moonachie's ZIP code 07074 have filed 372 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $35.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 257 claims (69% of all) and $27.1 million, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 28 and Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 14. 90% 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, 308 have fewer than Moonachie.