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List of New Jersey hurricanes. Tracks of all tropical cyclones to pass through New Jersey from 1851 through 2022. There have been 115 hurricanes or tropical storms that affected the U.S. state of New Jersey. Due to its location, few hurricanes have hit the state directly, though numerous hurricanes have passed near or through New Jersey in its ...
Hurricane Sandy was the costliest natural disaster in the history of New Jersey, with economic losses to businesses of up to $30 billion. The most intense storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy formed in the Caribbean Sea on October 22. For days ahead of its eventual landfall, the hurricane was expected to turn toward New Jersey, as ...
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) [1][2] was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning ...
March 6-9, 1962: A Nor’easter Strikes New Jersey’s Oceanfront. In early March 1962, one of the most destructive nor’easters in New Jersey’s history struck the entire coastline, from Sandy ...
Part of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. The effects of Hurricane Irene in New Jersey in 2011 included about $1 billion in damage to 200,000 homes and buildings. This made it the costliest disaster in the state's history, [1] though this was dwarfed by Hurricane Sandy the following year. Irene struck the state on August 28, and was initially ...
The record of the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic is held jointly by hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Harvey (2017), both of which resulted in approximately $125 billion in property damage during the year they occurred. These storms are also the costliest tropical cyclones recorded worldwide. The hurricane seasons of those two ...
With 28 storms (27 named storms and one unnamed), the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season set a new single-year record for most storms, surpassing the total of 20 from 1933. [15] This record stood until surpassed by the 2020 season, which had 30 storms. [16] A total of 7 named storms formed before August 1, which exceeded the record of 5 set in 1997 ...
Hurricane Irma. Year: 2017. Death Toll: ~134. Financial Impact: $77.2 billion. At the time, Hurricane Irma was the most powerful hurricane in history in the open Atlantic. People dubbed it ...