When the Avalon Herald’s premier edition made its debut on Dune Drive in Avalon Aug. 10, 1967, the recent weather was among the coolest Augusts on record, according to Monthly Weather Review by the U.S. Weather Bureau.
Those who got one of the new newspaper’s first copies likely heard radio reports of extreme heat in the West, but not on the sands under the boardwalk near 30th Street.
They might have worn a sweatshirt or sweater as they perused the headlines on page one. That’s because the “Sea-breeze effects also played a part in keeping the southern New England coast and the Middle Atlantic coast about two degrees below normal.
Because there was much rain, local flooding was “reported from many areas in the East,” the Review states.
“Much of the very heavy rain in southern New Jersey and nearby areas occurred in air mass thunderstorms well in advance of the front. As much as 6.95 inches fell in the Atlantic City, N.J. area on (Aug. 3), then the same section reported 2.19 inches the next day as the front approached.
“Atlantic tropical storm activity was almost nil this August,” the report indicated. It noted the first tropical storm in the Atlantic that year occurred in the central Atlantic on Aug. 30.
“This storm had not become very intense by the end of the month,” the report stated.
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