Summer Weather Forecast For North Jersey: See Daily Predictions

NEW JERSEY — With the official start of summer just weeks away, planning has begun for the residents of North Jersey who look forward to the warmer weather and increased opportunity for outdoor fun.

Specific, long-term weather predictions can help with that planning, and the private weather company AccuWeather has released its 2021 summer weather forecast.

Daily forecasts for North Jersey are listed until early August. After that, AccuWeather lists the historical average temperature for the rest of the summer.

For a snapshot of what AccuWeather experts predict locally, Ridgewood, New Jersey may only see three 90 degree days throughout the summer. AccuWeather predicts 18 days of storms and rain, with 11 of them forecasted for June alone.

Experts forecast a cloudy Memorial Day, with a high of 76 degrees and low of 56 degrees, and partly cloudy skies on the 4th of July, with a high of 84 degrees.

Regionally, thunderstorms are expected to be a frequent occurrence across the Northeast, as well as the Ohio Valley and Midwest. This will limit "the potential for long-duration heat waves with temperatures averaging right around normal," according to AccuWeather.

The southeast could see a marginal decline in impact from tropical storm systems, but there is some activity expected.

“We do feel there could be a named storm in June, but the way the pattern is setting up in June in the eastern U.S.," meteorologist Paul Pastelok explained, anything that might develop "may be forced away from the coast or head well down to the south towards Mexico or South Texas."

Though tropical storms aren't expected to do as much damage as they did in 2020, the western U.S. is preparing for another active fire season, as drought conditions could fuel more fires earlier in the year than usual.

Nationally, AccuWeather predicts an eventful summer similar to the 2020 season, which brought record-breaking deaths and damage in the form of wildfires and hurricanes.

Meteorologists are also expecting the return of derechos, a weather phenomenon sometimes referred to as an “inland hurricane.” The term became more widely known about last summer when one swept through Iowa with winds faster than 100 miles per hour on August 10.

“We are still very nervous about the possibility of derechos developing based on the pattern that we’re forecasting” Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather’s chief long-range forecaster, said in a statement.

This year, the most extreme weather is expected in the early fall, Pastelok added.

Although the number of tropical storms is predicted to be down from recent years, AccuWeather says tornadoes are likely to be on the rise from May until July.

Pastelok said anywhere from 1,300 to 1,400 tornadoes could be reported by the end of the year, a slight increase from 2020.

“Across the Plains, we’re still going to be watching for the possibility of a flare-up of storms, mainly central areas on north during the month of May, June and early July,” Pastelok said in a statement.

These storms are expected to extend farther east than normal, Pastelok added, due to drought conditions that range from Montana to the Texas Panhandle.

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