New Jersey weather by county: is it normal?

New Jersey in September 2026

14 of 21 counties ran at least 1° warmer than usual in September 2026, and 0 ran at least 1° cooler.
Warmest against its own records: Cape May County (9th-warmest September of 132). Even the least warm, Hudson County, had its 30th-warmest.
Wettest September against its records: Monmouth County, 8.4 inches (6th-wettest).
2 of 21 counties were in moderate drought or worse on NOAA's Palmer reading for September.
Since 1970 the state's counties have warmed about 0.7° per decade on average, Atlantic County the most at 0.7°.

This week's forecast against the usual, and every month since 1895, for all 21 counties in New Jersey. 2 had a top-10 warm September in 2026.