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Cape May, NJ weather news and photos.

Summer in the Spring

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Cape May, NJ – Call this an April heat wave – a little taste of summer in the springtime.  Cape May set two new back to back records yesterday and today . Temperatures soared to 83 degrees yesterday and 86 degrees today. That’s the warmest April 9th and April 10th every recorded  here. For people [...]

Are We Losing Higbee Beach?

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  Cape May, NJ – If you want to walk on Higbee Beach, you’d best check the tide tables. Hurricane Sandy caused massive erosion, both of the Delaware Bay beach and the dunes. So much so that most of Higbee Beach now disappears at high tide.   On this particular high tide, there was little [...]

Nor’Easter Slides by Cape May

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Cape May, NJ – For the second time in a week,  Cape May dodged a bullet and was spared the wrath of a powerful storm. Just as our anxiety about  Hurricane Sandy was subsiding, the National Weather Service reported  a new, powerful nor’easter heading our way.  Thankfully, the new storm, named Athena by The Weather Channel,  did not deliver [...]

Reed’s Beach After Sandy

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Reed’s Beach, NJ – Hurricane Sandy may change forever the fragile Delaware bayshore community of Reed’s Beach, built on the edge of a salt marsh.  Three days after the superstorm hit, several of the homes have been declared unsafe and unlivable. Sandy’s unrelenting winds curled around Cape May County, picking up power as the storm  [...]

Cape May Recovering from Sandy

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Cape May, NJ -  Cove beach looked just as pretty as ever Wednesday. There was just less of it. Hurricane Sandy chomped out yet another piece of the fragile dune that keeps the sea water at bay. While police barricades restricted traffic to the Cove and other storm affected areas, Cape May and West Cape [...]

Sandy the Day After

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  Cape May, NJ – Yesterday, these houses were across the street from the beach. This morning, the beach has come to them. The eastern end of Cape May’s Beach Ave. had a major shifting of the sands, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy hit the Jersey coast Monday evening, packing gusts up to 90 [...]

Sandy Getting Stronger

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Sandy’s still out at sea and yet, even on the lee side of the Cape May peninsula, water levels are rising to flood levels this morning.  High tide has claimed the entire beach  at Higbee Beach Wildlife Management  Area and is surging into the dune path. After Sandy’s visit is over,  it’s likely both the [...]

Life in Cape May: Lockdown for Sandy

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Cape May, NJ – In the wee hours of  Monday morning I can hear the wind and rain starting to ramp up. Cape May’s on lockdown mode.  Got the robo call Sunday warning of the mandatory evacuation cut off time: 4PM.  No one comes in or goes off the island now. At 3PM Sunday, looked [...]

Cape May Point Braces for Sandy

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Cape May Point, NJ – The sign on Sunset Boulevard says it all. Cape May Point residents are being told in no uncertain terms to get out of dodge. As the storm approached Sunday morning, some said they will, some said they won’t. Chris Wimberg plans to stay. He’s been taking photos with his cellphone [...]

Life in Cape May: Prepping for Hurricane Sandy

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Cape May -  I’m checking the National Hurricane Center website once again, sifting through tea leaves, trying to see the future. We got the first robo call Friday night  – voluntary evacuations Saturday and  mandatory evacuations Sunday for Cape May city. Irene all over again. I have vivid memories of leaving our house at 5AM [...]