Nobody is pushing the panic button just yet, but with drier-than-normal conditions and higher-than-average temperatures over the past few weeks, state officials are carefully monitoring reservoir levels as they begin to drop… “We really don’t have any margin for error in the precipitation department because we’re seeing very low stream flow for this time of year,” New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University Dave Robinson said. “Ground water is dropping and the reservoirs in the northern part of the state are starting to drop at a rate that’s a little faster than their normal decline.”

You can tell just from walking outside, but the weather records prove this May in New Jersey is definitely cooler than usual… “Temperatures are averaging, daily highs and lows — in the upper 50s,” Dr. David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University, told New Jersey 101.5. “And we should be, on average for the first part of May, in the lower 60s.”

It’s been a mostly-dreary start to the month of May in New Jersey, with more rain expected later Friday, but maybe we shouldn’t complain about the unpleasant conditions. According to David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers, the precipitation was “much needed,” and it temporarily “put the brakes” on drought concerns for the Garden State.