Cape May’s Record Warm March

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Cape May, NJ – It’s history!   The month of  March was the the warmest ever in Cape May.   Temperatures were an average of 50.7 degrees last month, 7 degrees warmer than usual and a brand new record for the area.  Last month also set a new record for the average maximum daily temperature for March [...]

Cape May’s Early Spring Daffodils

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Cape May, NJ – There’s nothing like that first bunch of daffodils in the Spring to stir up spring fever.   I  found the earliest bloomers last week on Stevens St. in West Cape May.  Now, it’s a week later. I want more. I do have some parameters for my searching.  In addition to early blooming, [...]

Life in Cape May: Signs of an Early Spring

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Cape May, NJ – When the chilly west winds stopped blowing this week and Delaware Bay settled into a  placid, deep blue, you just knew spring was on the way. It might seem early to start looking for signs of spring, but then we’ve had an exceptionally warm winter. Record smashing temperatures in some cases. [...]

A Year Without Winter?

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Cape May, NJ – When you see a Coastie running on the beach in his shorts on an early February afternoon, something’s amiss. The average temperature for the month of January 2012 was  five degrees warmer than usual -  about 40º F,  compared to the more typical  35º F. For three months in a row [...]

Polar Plunge

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Wildwood, NJ – Hundreds of people wearing only bathing suits stood on a chilly Wildwood beach Saturday, waiting for the signal. And they were off.  Running across the beach in 37 degree weather, plunging into a 44 degree winter ocean. Man that was cold. Bystanders were bundled up in parkas, hats and gloves.  Some of [...]

First Snow of 2012

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Cape May, NJ – Cape May’s first snowfall of the year was little more than a light dusting.  Local residents woke up to see snow, but not much of it. Barely two tenths of an inch coated some grass and sidewalks overnight. At the Cape May Winery on Townbank Road, the ground was a mix [...]

Cape May’s Warm New Year

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Cape May, NJ – Many times, people hope their New Year’s Eve is hot. This year, it definitely was warm.  Before her long  New Year’s Eve night ahead, a Lobster House waitress was enjoying the ocean and the sun in a tee shirt and bare feet Saturday afternoon. A couple from Scranton  came to Cape [...]

Merlins In Winter?

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Photo by Jerry Liguori  Cape May, NJ – As we all know, the weather has been warmer in Cape May this month: green grass, no snow, and a warmer ocean.  Add to that list the two Merlins that were terrorizing blackbirds in the fields along New England Road this week and it seems more like [...]

Winter’s Coming

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Cape May, NJ -  You get a glimpse of it on the newly empty streets on a Monday afternoon. There’s a whiff of it in the early wood smoke from a neighbor’s house.  You hear it in conversations about installing back up generators. Winter’s coming. No matter how many festive holiday events are happening right [...]

Frost Free Zone

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Cape May, NJ -  You can still see some annual flowers blooming along the beachfront.  It’s November 21 and we have not yet had a hard, killing frost in Cape May.  The average frost date here is normally around November 6. One reason for the delayed frost and milder season is the ocean temperature. Cape [...]