Update from Long Beach Island, NJ

Thanks again for setting this up Chris! It's such a great idea. Anyway, I've been on vacation this week in Long Beach Island, NJ (Beach Haven) and I thought I'd give a little weather update from down here.

It has been a very interesting week in regards to the weather. For those who don't know, Long Beach Island (or LBI as it is called by us New Jerseyans) is about 6 miles out at sea and only a mile or so wide at its widest point.


The biggest surprise this week has been the cold water temperatures. The warmest it's been all week is 60 and most of the time the water has been around 57. Brrr.... Due to the cool temps over the water and the higher dew points, we've seen a lot of ocean fog. The beach has been very foggy but the rest of the island is warm and sunny. It's amazing how much the weather changes in 2 blocks down here!


On Wednesday, I got up around 9:30 and it was foggy over the water and sunny over land. 10 minutes later, the entire island was shrouded in fog (it reminded me of the movie The Myst that came out last November...really creepy!). The micro climates down here are extremely interesting; I'm going to try and do some more research on them and hopefully find some more information.

One last note, the lifeguards say that we need a NE wind to warm up the water. That seems counterintuitive to me (one would think a southerly wind would be best). I hope I can figure out this conundrum as well. It's quite annoying that Cape May is reading 80 degrees and Sandy Hook has been in the 70s yet we remain in the high 50s.

Well, there are no pretty graphics in this post unfortunately, but hopefully I can poke around and find out some more about the crazy and changeable weather we've had down here this week. It's too bad I missed the dime sized hail at my house in Somerset County! Have a good one! I'm sure the weather is better in Hawaii Mike!