Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Southampton, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Indian Mills 2 W, NJ, 6 miles southwest of Southampton at 100 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 24°F. August is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 50.5 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (27.2 of 50.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 52 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (22); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 28 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 112 nights a year. Snowfall averages 23.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 50.5 inches is more than at 39 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (76%). Pemberton, 7 miles north, has its own station (Philadelphia/Mt Holly WFO, NJ): 46.0 inches a year, 4.5 less than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Burlington, Delaware River, NJ, 17 miles northwest, 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 Philadelphia tide gauge, 24 miles from Southampton, has risen 1.24 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1900 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 73 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 219 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Southampton: 178 thunderstorm wind reports, 16 floods, 15 flash floods, 6 lightning strikes and 4 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 9, and the NWS estimated $14.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 85 mph, on July 31, 2009. June has had the most flash floods, 9 of 15. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 39 have had fewer than Southampton.

Flood insurance policyholders in Southampton's ZIP code 08088 have filed 158 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 31 claims (20% of all) and $832,000, then April 2007 Nor'easter in 2007 with 17 and March 2010 Nor'easter in 2010 with 10. The year with the most claims was 2004, with 34. 44% 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, 244 have fewer than Southampton.