The sweltering heat broke records in Newark, while locations in Somerset and Burlington counties also hit 100, breaking unofficial records, according to the National Weather Service.
Newark hit a high of 102 degrees at 4:31 p.m. at the National Weather Service’s Newark Liberty International Airport, the agency’s New York City office said in“This breaks the old record of 99 set in 2010,” for July 24, the advisory stated. “This also marks the fifth straight day where the temperature has reached 100 at the airport, the longest such streak on record at Newark. Records go back to the year 1931.
It was in Newark — on July 22, 2011 — that the National Weather Service recorded New Jersey’s highest temperature on record, for any date, in any location, at 108 degrees, said Amanda Lee, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly forecast office. was July 10 in 1936, when a weather monitoring station in Old Bridge in Middlesex County reached 110 degrees.Lee said the temperature hit an even 100 degrees on Sunday at two other monitoring locations in New Jersey: Somerset Airport in Bedminster, which the agency refers to as Somerville; and at South Jersey Regional Airport in Lumberton, referred to as Mount Holly.
However, Lee said the Bedminster and Lumberton high marks would not be considered official records because the two were recorded at automated monitoring stations in place only since the 1990s.
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