The massive winter storm that blanketed the area this past weekend is long gone, but many parts of Jersey are still digging out after the storm produced 20 to 30 inches of snow. And while the risk of flooding down the shore has decreased, it’s increasi…
Archives for January 2016
Rutgers Home Gardeners School: Green Thumbs Invited to Let Knowledge Bloom
Gardening enthusiasts are invited to register for the upcoming Rutgers Home Gardeners School to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat., March 19 on the Cook/Douglass campus. This year marks the 40th offering of this annual event, which many attendees come back for year after year. Designed to offer “something for everyone” […]
Red, Ripe and Ready: The New Jersey Tomato
If the bland pallor of winter’s supermarket tomatoes has you yearning for a taste of summer, take heart. This month, the folks at Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center plan to release the first batch of seeds for the new Rutgers tomato. Th…
Storm crashes otherwise mild El Niño winter
Until last weekend’s near-record snowfall, one of the strongest El Niño weather patterns on record had been very kind to New Jersey – delivering a hurricane-free summer, a parka-free December and a snow-free winter. What remains to be seen is wh…
New Brunswick smashes old snowfall record
The powerful East Coast blizzard this past weekend turned out to be the biggest snowstorm on record in the city of New Brunswick, which was pounded with 26.9 inches of snow from Friday night to Saturday night. That snowfall total smashed the city’s pre…
Sen Comm Releases Bill to Protect Barnegat Bay
Today the Senate Environment and Energy released a bill to help curb pollution going into the Barnegat Bat. S765 (Smith) requires the DEP to do a study and then adopt total maximum daily loads for Barnegat Bay ecosystem. As a result of increased pollut…
Final N.J. snowfall totals from monster blizzard of 2016
With just a little more snow, four communities in northern New Jersey could have made history by topping an elusive record that has stood for 117 years. Bernards Township, Long Valley, Succasunna and Wharton were each blanketed with 30 inches of snow d…
Why (almost) no one predicted monster blizzard’s big surprise
It was the blizzard that was, and nearly wasn’t. A massive winter storm dropped more than two feet of snow across much of New Jersey Saturday, inundated the coast with record flooding and cut power to more than 100,000 people. “This (was) an awesome show of nature,” said David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University. “When you get something like this in terms of magnitude, considering the amount of snow over a widespread area and then the wind and coastal flooding. The expanse of nature involved in a storm like this is just awe-inspiring.”
Did monster blizzard smash N.J. records? Well, that’s complicated
With the blizzard of 2016 potentially dropping three feet of snow in parts of New Jersey before ending Sunday morning, here’s the question: Was that the highest snowfall ever recorded? Well, that’s complicated. New Jersey State Climatologist David Robi…
Opinion: Thinking Smaller for more Effective Flood Protection
New Jersey was fortunate in 2015 in experiencing no major floods. We have a long history of devastating floods, going back to the 1800s when our total population was less than 1 million people. Major river floods come with depressing regularity, includ…