Maurice River Township (Cumberland) received 1.06”, Wildwood Crest 0.83”, and three Lower Township sites caught 0.80”, 0.73”, and 0.69”. The evening saw rain fall, especially in the southeast. Periods of light snow amounting to no more than a few tenths of an inch fell in the north during the morning of the 7th. Note the scale in inches beneath the map. Precipitation across New Jersey from 7AM on February 3rd through 7AM February 5th based on a PRISM (Oregon State University) analysis generated using NWS Cooperative and CoCoRaHS observations. The northwest was, by a large margin, the wettest region of NJ during this extended event, with 2.54” accumulating in Knowlton Township, Frelinghuysen Township 2.47”, Hackettstown (Warren) and Blairstown each 2.46”, and Stillwater Township 2.41” (Figure 2). Some light snow fell along the coast during the evening, with little or no accumulation. It was rain again during the morning and afternoon of the 4th, some of it freezing in the north, until a front moved through from north to south, rapidly dropping temperatures upwards of 20 degrees. Fog, with light to moderate rain, continued into the evening. The morning of the 3rd began with light rain and foggy conditions across the Garden State. A number of southern locations had under an inch of snowfall, while top honors went to Sparta (Sussex) at 6.1”, Vernon Township (Sussex) 5.9”, Newton 5.5”, Blairstown (Warren) 5.2”, and both Frelinghuysen and Knowlton townships with 5.0”. Upper Deerfield (Cumberland) only saw 1.88”. On the dry side were the Cape May County locations of Wildwood Crest at 1.62”, three Lower Township sites with 1.71”, 1.82”, and 1.91”, Middle Township 1.84”, and Ocean City 1.98”. Looking at individual stations across NJ, the most precipitation was observed in Stillwater Township (Sussex) with 4.86”, followed by Knowlton Township (Warren) at 4.60”, Newton (Sussex) 4.37”, Wantage (Sussex) 4.35”, and both Randolph (Morris) and Frelinghuysen (Warren) townships with 4.33”.
Counties to the north averaged 3.7” (-6.5”, 33rd least snowy).
Central counties (Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer, Hunterdon, Somerset, and Union) averaged 2.6” (-6.5”, 32nd least snowy). This is 5.7” below normal and ranks as the 26th least snowy February. The southern counties averaged 0.9” (Ocean and Burlington and southward: note the difference between the county breakdown for precipitation and temperature). This is 6.1” below normal and ranks as the 25th least snowy February since 1895. Note the scale in inches at the bottom of the map. February 2022 precipitation across New Jersey based on a PRISM (Oregon State University) analysis generated using NWS Cooperative and CoCoRaHS observations from 7AM on January 31st to 7AM on February 28th. More geographically specific, the far south was driest and the northwest wettest (Figure 1).įigure 1. This is 0.07” above normal and ranks as the 60th wettest/69th driest. Rain and melted snow/sleet averaged 2.93”. There was an above-average spread between the average high of 46.7° (+3.6°, 12th mildest) and low of 24.4° (-0.2°, 40th mildest), the 22.3-degree range being 3.8 degrees wider than normal. The statewide average temperature of 35.6° was 1.7° above the 1991–2020 normal, ranking as the 19th mildest since 1895. More will be said about winter at the end of this report, but when it came to February, the end result was a somewhat warmer-than-normal month with about average precipitation and a dearth of snowfall. Whether you call it a see saw, swing, or merry-go-round, it fits the theme of playground equipment as it never seemed any one particular variety of weather became established for all that long. The second month of 2022 and third month of winter continued a theme since December.
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