Relive The Hottest Day In Recorded History In New Jersey

As we gear up for the cold temperatures to take over the Garden State, let's look back on the hottest day New Jersey ever had.

There's hot, and then there's that angry feeling of hot that we only feel in New Jersey as the temperature approaches triple digits.

It Was Hotter Than It's Ever Been In New Jersey

It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's usually memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Then there was that one day many, many years ago that stayed burned into the memory of any of those who experienced it.

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How hot was it? It was the hottest the temperature had ever risen to in the recorded history of New Jersey.

The record books at Infoplease take us back to July 10, 1936, to a little Garden State town known as Runyon.

This Middlesex County town holds the record for the highest temperature ever in New Jersey.

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On that date, the temperature was recorded to hit 110 degrees, and let's remember, this is well before the heat index, so we're talking 110 degrees as a straight temperature.

Twenty-three years before that scorching day, the hottest temperature the USA had ever seen, 134 degrees was registered in Death Valley.

That temperature remains to this day as the hottest ever recorded on Earth, although Yale Climate Connections says there is controversy about the reliability of the reading from over 100 years ago.

Many experts consider the 130 degrees recorded at Furnace Creek in Death Valley on July 9th, 2021 as the record holder, but at that point, you'd have to be a scientist to argue over those temperatures.

If the temperature is hitting 130, no one is going to be happy about it.