2014 may go down as the year of the hyperlocal weather event. The Office of the State Climatologist at Rutgers University compiled a list of the top 10 weather and climate events for 2014 and, for the second straight year, statewide impacts were relatively minimal… “Arguably this was the most impactful winter on day-to-day life since the winter of 1993/94,” David Robinson, the state climatologist, wrote in his summary.