Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pittsgrove, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Woodstown Pittsgrov 4E, NJ, in Pittsgrove at 98 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 66°F; January is the coolest, at 43°F and 25°F. July is the wettest at 5.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 46.7 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (25.7 of 46.7 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 44 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (16); a normal September there has highs of 80°F and 4.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 35 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 104 nights a year. Snowfall averages 13.3 inches a year, most of it in January and February. That 46.7 inches is more than at 17 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (33%). Bridgeton, 8 miles southwest, has its own station (Seabrook Farms, NJ): 47.8 inches a year, 1.1 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Reedy Point, DE, 22 miles west, averaged 83°F in July and 38°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Reedy Point tide gauge, 22 miles from Pittsgrove, has risen 1.55 ± 0.09 inches per decade from 1956 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 15.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 93 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 220 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pittsgrove: 144 thunderstorm wind reports, 33 floods, 19 flash floods, 18 heavy rain events and 6 lightning strikes. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $1.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 89 mph, on August 7, 2020. July has had the most flash floods, 10 of 19. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 58 have had fewer than Pittsgrove.

Flood insurance policyholders in Pittsgrove's ZIP code 08318 have filed 15 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $113,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 60% 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, 30 have fewer than Pittsgrove.