Old Farmer’s Almanac Summer 2020 Predictions For New Jersey

NEW JERSEY — With the spring mostly gone, thoughts are now turning to the summer in New Jersey.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, founded in 1792, is predicting New Jersey can expect “wicked hot” weather in the coming summer months.

In June, the Almanac predicts New Jersey will see a few showers to start the month. Temperatures will start to rise in the middle of the month, June 10-17. Warm weather is expected to bring isolated thunderstorms beginning June 18 and going through the end of the month.

Summer officially begins with the solstice on June 20. For most of the United States, summer’s hottest periods won’t occur until July.

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“Summer’s steamiest weather will hold off until mid-July in most areas,” Almanac editor Michael Steinberg said.

While the summer is expected to be a scorcher across the United States in 2020, the Old Farmer’s Almanac also predicts elevated amounts of rainfall from Texas to Canada, and eastward to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Almanac’s weather forecast methodology comes from a secret formula that was created by its founder, Robert Thomas, in 1792. The exact prediction process remains a secret, but the periodical discloses it uses solar science, climatology and meteorology to make its forecasts.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is not to be confused with its rival forecast predictor, Farmers’ Almanac, is North America’s oldest continuously published periodical, according to its website.