Thursday, January 26, 2017

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in New Jersey?

What is the coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the state of New Jersey? This is a weather trivia question that people living in New Jersey or people thinking of visiting New Jersey including the casinos in Atlantic City, the beaches at the Jersey Shore, the lighthouses, waterfalls, Delaware Water Gap and all the other great tourist attractions in the state will find interesting. 



New Jersey is certainly not considered a cold weather state since it is off the Atlantic Ocean. Despite that, the record coldest temperature ever recorded in the state of New Jersey is probably a lot colder than most people might imagine.

What is the Coldest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in New Jersey?

  • -34 degrees below zero on January 5, 1904

The coldest weather temperature ever officially recorded in the state of New Jersey is -34 degrees below zero. That record low temperature for New Jersey was recorded on January 5, 1904, in River Vale. 

River Vale is a 10,000 population city located in northern New Jersey in Bergen County on the border with New York State. During the American Revolution the Baylor Massacre took place in River Vale in which 15 Continental soldiers were killed and 54 captured by the British. 

How does a -34 degrees below zero record weather coldest temperature stack up vs the rest of the United States? It's ranks as the 34th coldest record weather temperature out of the 50 states tied with North Carolina.

The coldest weather temperature ever recorded anywhere in the United States is -80 degrees below zero which occurred on January 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, Alaska. The coldest weather temperature ever recorded in the lower 48 states is -70 degrees below zero which occurred on January 20, 1954, in Rogers Pass, Montana.

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