The trees were swaying, leaves were flying and holiday decorations were blowing around in some neighborhoods across New Jersey when a strong cold front swept across the state Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night.
Although the rain wasn’t heavy in most areas, wind gusts got as strong as 45 mph and close to 50 mph in some towns, triggering more than 14,000 power outages during the height of the storm.
About 1,100 homes and businesses across New Jersey remained without power as of late Thursday morning, according to outage data from the state’s utility companies.
Here’s a look at the top wind gusts reported in each county. The data was obtained from the National Weather Service and the Rutgers NJ Weather Network. (Most of the wind speeds below were recorded Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night, but several are from early Thursday morning.)
Atlantic County
- Atlantic City Marina: 43 mph
- Atlantic City International Airport: 40 mph
- Pleasantville Point: 39 mph
- Forsythe: 37 mph
Bergen County
- Teterboro Airport: 36 mph
Burlington County
- Tabernacle: 42 mph
- Moorestown: 40 mph
- McGuire AFB: 37 mph
- Columbus: 36 mph
- Coyle Field: 35 mph
Camden County
- Pennsauken: 41 mph
- Blue Anchor: 35 mph
Cape May County
- Ocean City: 41 mph
- Woodbine: 39 mph
- Wildwood: 35 mph
- Cape May: 35 mph
- Dennis Twp.: 32 mph
- West Cape May: 32 mph
Cumberland County
- Fortescue: 41 mph
- Upper Deerfield: 35 mph
- Vineland: 30 mph
- Greenwich: 26 mph
Essex County
- Newark Liberty Airport: 45 mph
Gloucester County
- Logan Twp.: 33 mph
Hudson County
- Bayonne: 40 mph
Hunterdon County
- Pittstown: 42 mph
- Alexandria: 39 mph
- Teetertown (Lebanon Twp.): 35 mph
Mercer County
- Trenton Mercer Airport: 36 mph
- Hopewell: 32 mph
Middlesex County
- Perth Amboy: 38 mph
- Old Bridge Airport: 37 mph
- East Brunswick: 33 mph
- New Brunswick: 31 mph
Monmouth County
- Cream Ridge (Upper Freehold Twp.): 46 mph
- Keyport: 38 mph
- Belmar/ Farmingdale: 38 mph
- Sea Girt: 38 mph
- North Middletown: 37 mph
- Millstone Twp.: 37 mph
- Monmouth Beach Borough: 36 mph
Morris County
- Morristown: 30 mph
Ocean County
- Mantoloking: 49 mph
- Seaside Heights: 46 mph
- Trixie’s Landing (Bayville): 44 mph
- Harvey Cedars: 42 mph
- Berkeley Twp.: 41 mph
- Beach Haven West: 40 mph
- Seaside Park: 40 mph
- South Seaside Park: 39 mph
- Beach Haven: 39 mph
- Brick: 39 mph
- Rutgers (Little Egg Harbor Twp.): 39 mph
- Tuckerton: 39 mph
- Little Egg Harbor Twp.: 38 mph
- Seaside Heights: 38 mph
- Cedar Bridge USFS: 37 mph
- Brick Twp.: 36 mph
- Loveladies: 36 mph
- North Beach Haven: 35 mph
Passaic County
- Little Falls: 22 mph
Salem County
- Lower Alloways Creek Twp.: 41 mph
- Mannington: 30 mph
Somerset County
- Hillsborough: 32 mph
- Basking Ridge: 26 mph
- Somerville: 26 mph
Sussex County
- High Point Monument: 45 mph
- High Point: 36 mph
Union County
- Newark Liberty Airport: 45 mph
(airport is partially in Essex and partially in Union)
Warren County
- Stewartsville: 35 mph
- Hackettstown: 21 mph
Current weather radar
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