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Station SDHN4 - 8531680 - Sandy Hook, NJ
Owned and maintained by NOAA's National Ocean Service
Water Level Observation Network
40.467 N 74.009 W (40°28'1" N 74°0'34" W)
Site elevation: 1.9 m above mean sea level
Air temp height: 5.1 m above site elevation
Anemometer height: 5.5 m above site elevation
Barometer elevation: 2.4 m above mean sea level
Sea temp depth: 0.5 m below MLLW
Right whales are active off NJ from November to April. Speed restrictions of 10 knots apply to vessels 65 feet or greater in specific areas along the mid-Atlantic coast. To learn more about right whales and rules protecting them, go to: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/shipstrike
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Data for last 45 days:
- Real time standard meteorological data and their description.
- Real time derived measurements data and their description.
- Quality controlled data for 2025 (data descriptions)
- Historical data (data descriptions)
- Search historical meteorological data for observations that meet your threshold conditions
- Climatic summary table (TXT) and plots of (description of tables and plots)
Other Available Historical Data
For data before the dates listed above, go to the National Ocean Service's Meteorological Observations page for this station by clicking here:http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/stationhome.html?id=8531680
Some data files have been compressed with the GNU gzip program.
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