Cold/Wind Chill — Northwestern Burlington, New Jersey

2015-02-13 · Northwestern Burlington, New Jersey

Wider weather episode

Northwest winds that persisted into the morning of the 13th combined with an arctic air mass to produce wind chill factors of around 10 degrees below zero and low temperatures in the positive single numbers throughout most of New Jersey and claimed the life of one homeless man in Burlington County. The lowest hourly wind chill factors included 12 degrees below zero in Trenton (Mercer County), 11 degrees below zero in Somerville (Somerset County) and 10 degrees below zero at the Atlantic City International Airport. Many counties and municipalities declared code blues. In Southampton (Burlington County), a 59-year-old homeless man was found dead inside a makeshift tent near a Wawa convenience store.

Actual morning low temperatures included zero in Walpack (Sussex County), 2 degrees in Parsippany (Morris County) and Kingwood (Hunterdon County), 3 degrees in Blairstown (Warren County), 4 degrees in Sussex (Sussex County), 6 degrees in Somerville (Somerset County) and New Brunswick (Middlesex County), 7 degrees in Trenton (Mercer County), 8 degrees in Mount Holly (Burlington County) and Clayton (Gloucester County), 9 degrees in Belmar (Monmouth County), Cherry Hill (Camden County), the Atlantic City International Airport and Toms River (Ocean County), 11 degrees in Millville (Cumberland County) and Pennsville (Salem County) and 12 degrees in Wildwood (Cape May County). The arctic high pressure system moved southeast from North Dakota early on the 12th into the central Mississippi Valley on the evening of the 12th and into the Ohio Valley on the morning of the 13th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 556536. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.