N.J. weather: Is this our hottest summer on record? See the rankings. [Video]

You probably have heard this question at home, or work or in your neighborhood. Have New Jersey’s summers ever been this hot?

Well, it’s too early to draw any conclusions about the current summer, because we’re not even halfway through. But if recent months and long-range forecasts are any indication, the Garden State could be in the midst of its hottest summer on record — or at least one of its hottest.

That’s the word from New Jersey State Climatologist David Robinson, who helps oversee the state’s weather data and records going datign to the late 1800s.

Robinson and his assistant, Mat Gerbush, said the first half of 2024 has been the second hottest on record since New Jersey started keeping reliable temperature stats in 1895.

And last month — when we were all sweating through many days of high heat and high humidity — turned out to be the second hottest June on record …