82 DEGREES AT 4 P.M. ON JERSEY SHORE
Atlantic City, New Jersey* (JFK+50) The New York Tribune reports that on April 10, 1922 "the official thermometer" at the Atlantic City Weather Bureau** sitting atop the Whitehall Building "marked 82 degrees at 4 p.m., making the day a record breaker."
According to the Tribune...
"It was the warmest April 10 of which the bureau has any record (and) the warmest day of the first half of the month ever recorded."*
*Atlantic City is a resort city on New Jersey's Atlantic Coast known for casinos, wide beaches & iconic Boardwalk. Founded in 1854, AC inspired the U.S. board game Monopoly & is home to the Miss America Pageant.
**The Atlantic City Weather Bureau had been keeping records for 50 years (1872-1922). The daily mean average temperature for AC in April is 48 degrees.
SOURCE
"Thermometer at 82, Set Heat Record for April 10," The New York Tribune, April 11, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
