The Coldest Temperatures Ever Recorded In New Jersey

Yes, the mornings are getting chilly, but how far are we away from the coldest New Jersey day on record?

It is supposed to be a colder winter this year in New Jersey, but we're betting nothing will approach the coldest day New Jersey has ever experienced.

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We're going to take you back over 100 years. The middle of the winter brought a day that will be remembered for a long time.

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Imagine yourself in River Vale in Bergen County. The date is January 4, and the forecast called for bitterly cold weather

When the day was done, the temperature had dipped to an unbelievable 34 degrees below zero, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Garden State.

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To put that into some perspective, that's 66 degrees below freezing, and it's 106 degrees below room temperature. And that 34 below was the temperature, not the wind chill!

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To put that in perspective, we checked for the lowest temperature recorded at weather stations across the state for the lowest January temperatures in history around the area, according to the Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist.

Atlantic City Marina - On January 16, 1893, the low temperature was -4 degrees, and it was 1893, not 1983.

The Coldest January Temperatures Ever Recorded In New Jersey

Cape May - The thermometer plummeted to -2 degrees on January 17, 1982, but Cape May always has plenty of hot tea and hot chocolate to help.

Freehold - It went all the way down to -14 degrees in downtown Freehold on a bitterly cold January 28th, 1935.

New Brunswick - On the same day as Freehold's all-time January low, the 28th in 1935, the New Brunswick temperature also plummeted to -14

Newark Airport - On January 21, 1985, the temperature sunk to -8 at the airport, the coldest January temperature ever recorded there,