More storm coverage throughout the day and through Sunday. Please check back often. Monmouth and Ocean County residents face both voluntary and mandatory evacuations as Hurricane Irene appears ready to strike the Jersey Shore by Sunday. Long Beach Island residents will be forced to leave by Friday morning, and officials from Belmar, Berkeley and Toms River are asking residents who live near the shoreline to leave voluntarily. Governor Christie has declared a state of emergency that will mobilize the National Guard to address the hurricane preparedness, and he also strongly encouraged everyone…
More storm coverage throughout the day and through Sunday. Please check back often. Monmouth and Ocean County residents face both voluntary and mandatory evacuations as a hurricane watch has been issued for the entire Jersey Shore region. All of New Jersey's coastal counties, as well as portions of Burlington and Cumberland counties, and even the city of Philadelphia, are covered under the watch, which means hurricane conditions are possible over the next 48 hours. Hurricane Irene, packing winds of 115 m.p.h., was 830 miles south of Cape May at 5 p.m, according to the National Weather Service…
Record heat has many locals thinking that the Jersey Shore could face tropical activity. Some feel like we dodged a bullet last week as former Tropical Storm Emily went out to sea. But a casual observer to this Atlantic Hurricane season may say it was over-hyped. Meteorologist Steven DiMartino operates his own forecast consulting firm in Freehold, nynjpaweather.com, and says he has seen signs of this summer’s heat since late winter. “There’s a lot of cooling in the stratosphere. In fact, there’s so much that it is causing a compression and heating in the troposphere. We live in the …
