After superstorm Sandy destroyed the boardwalk business she ran for 30 years, Patty Hershey is reopening with a bigger and better facility that will offer both some familiar fare and a unique interactive exhibit. Hershey renovated her Big Top Arcade to…
Massive twister unlikely in NJ
Could a massive, deadly twister touch down in New Jersey someday? Not likely, but it’s not out of the question. Tornadoes as powerful as the one that killed at least 24 people in Moore, Okla., this week never have been reported in New Jersey, according…
Prepare now or go under, RU report warns Shore
By now, Charles and Toni Silvani were supposed be living full time at the modest waterfront house they had worked on for 13 years as their retirement home. That was their plan before superstorm Sandy…The economic fallout from superstorm Sandy will be…
NJFloodMapper site: Rutgers crystal ball for future floods?
With a few clicks of a mouse, the future of the great Manahawkin salt marshes appears: higher tides creeping westward, forcing the marsh to move, slowly but surely, toward Route 9…The NJFloodMapper tools update those projections by combining the most…
April not cold in N.J. after all, climate report says
April may have seemed chilly in New Jersey, but temperatures were actually a touch above average, according to the state climatologist. Meanwhile, the Garden State was drier than usual, with precipitation averaging 1.34 inches below normal, according t…
Rocks under sand could be protection from storm
After the devastation of superstorm Sandy, Mayor Bill Akers has been struggling to find the best way to protect his borough against future storms. He said he thinks he finally found his answer: a wall of heavy rocks covered in sand. Akers recently took…
Seaside Heights gets help from Rutgers
Months after the floodwaters subsided, Mayor Bill Akers still is treading water in a sea of questions he can’t answer. Scientists with the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences hope their expert advice can help Akers and the borou…
Earth Day talk in Wall to focus on Sandy, climate change
Rutgers University professor and climate scientist Alan Robock will be the keynote speaker for "Earth Day Gathering: A Scientific Response to Hurricane Sandy," to be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the InfoAge Science and History Museum on Marc…
Everyone loves seeing their kids in the kitchen
We’re not surprised that hundreds of Asbury Park Press readers have sent in pictures of their children and grandchildren in the kitchen since we started collecting them in the fall. On app.com, we have 10 galleries of Kids at the Table, and more are on…
With less Arctic ice, more storms like Sandy
A warming global climate that melts sea ice in the Arctic is driving changes to the jet stream – upper atmospheric winds that shape weather across North America – and helped create the conditions that mutated Hurricane Sandy into a hybrid storm, say sc…
