Tuesday - June 16, 2009

Just Missed Me

The Garden State was pelted with a hailstorm on Monday, blanketing the area in the snowy substance in a weather anomaly described by residents as “like a blizzard.”

Proving perhaps once and for all that even God can’t stand Jersey, the storm ripped through Bergen and Passaic counties. Marble sized hail accumulated 3-4 inches in many areas, allowing some residents to even build snowmen. Cars were buried and flash flooding of up to three feet was reported in areas including Wayne and the comically named Ho-Ho-Kus. Residents dusted off snowblowers and shovels to deal with the icy mess, and several homes suffered water damage as basements flooded. Trees and power lines were felled in the freak storm.

New Jersey isn’t alone in what some New Yorkers are calling “the summer that never happened.” Temperatures in the area for June are averaging at about 65 degrees, compared to normal temps of around 70. The area has gotten 5″ of rain, compared to a monthly average of 2″. The region saw rain on 14 out of 15 days so far for June.

Parts of New Jersey were pummeled by a massive hail storm on Monday afternoon, leaving it looking as if a June blizzard blew through with inches of dime-sized pellets piling up.

Washington Township residents were seen on their driveways breaking out the snow shovels and officials sent out bulldozers to act as snow plows to clear the streets after severe thunderstorms pounded the region. Children were seen forming hailballs.

Plowing snow, ice, whatever you want to call it on a street in Washington Township in June. It wasn’t an understatement to say folks in the neighborhood were shocked.

“Never in my lifetime, never,” Karen Yates said.

Neighbors who found themselves shoveling all Monday afternoon, said the hail started coming down fast and furious at around 2:30 p.m. Yates caputred much of storm on video, including the ice river that ran down the middle of her street.

“I grabbed my video camera and then I looked out the front window and it was like a river in my front yard going right down the street,” Yates said.

Added neighbor Jeff Don: “I’ve been here for 33 years and it’s never been this bad.”

A powerful thunderstorm dumped more than 3 inches of hail on Westwood and nearby communities in central and eastern Bergen County Monday afternoon.

Mike Pressler, a battalion chief with the Elmwood Park Fire Department, told The Record of Bergen County he was on the way home from work when his brother called to ask if he could go to Westwood and dig his sister-in-law’s car out of a pile of hail.

Pressler said when he got there the lawns were white, ”like we were in the middle of a blizzard.’’

A few more pictures here.

This was a very localized storm, and it really hammered that small part of the state. Trees down, wires down, flooding, cars damaged by hail, etc. And it’s mostly all melted away already. But it’s just one more part of this stalled weather system that’s turning The Garden State into the Mudhole State. And the weather forecast is for another solid week of rain. Oh joy!

Posted by Drew458     on 06/16/2009 at 12:04 PM   
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