Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Somers Point, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Atlantic City International Airport, NJ, 9 miles north of Somers Point 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 60 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%). Ocean City, 4 miles south, 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, 10 miles east, 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, 10 miles from Somers Point, 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 119 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Somers Point: 52 thunderstorm wind reports, 21 flash floods, 20 heavy rain events, 14 floods and 12 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $5.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on October 14, 2003. July has had the most flash floods, 12 of 21. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 66 have had fewer than Somers Point.

Flood insurance policyholders in Somers Point's ZIP code 08244 have filed 382 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $7.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 174 claims (46% of all) and $6.2 million, then December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 63 and Flooding in 1984 with 60. 85% 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, 312 have fewer than Somers Point.