Some towns received as much as 2.3 inches of rain on Sunday, and some places broke daily rainfall records and daily temperature records.
In a season of wacky weather, Sunday was another bizarre day in New Jersey, with drenching rain and balmy temperatures that broke daily records in several towns, followed by strong winds and colorful rainbows.
Capping it off, the mercury plummeted as much as 20 degrees at night and was expected to drop another 5 to 10 degrees by Monday morning.
Among the places that broke high temperature records Sunday were Newark and Trenton, both of which hit 65 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Newark's old record for Jan. 10 was 59 degrees, set in 2000, and Trenton's old record was 62 degrees, set in 1960.
The normal high on Jan. 10 in both cities is 39 degrees.
Atlantic City reached 65 degrees on Sunday, tying the city's old record from 1930. The city's normal high on Jan. 10 is 42 degrees.
Rainfall totals Sunday ranged from one-third of an inch in West Cape May to as much as 2.3 inches in Charlotteburg in Passaic County and 2.2 inches in Parsippany in Morris County.
RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS NEW JERSEY
For a look at the rainfall totals in 96 towns across New Jersey, click the blue tabs on this map. Rainfall data was provided by the New Jersey Weather & Climate Network, the National Weather Service and the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, known as CoCoRaHS.
In addition to breaking their daily temperature records, Newark and Trenton both set new records for the most rainfall on Jan. 10, the weather service said. Newark had 1.78 inches of rain on Sunday, crushing the city's old record of 0.89 inches from 2000, and Trenton had 1.55 inches of rain Sunday, topping its old record of 1.20 inches from 1983.
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