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Tide gage data available from this location at this link.

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USGS Parameter Group Data Types Start Date End Date
Physical Unit Values 2024-07-28 2024-11-25
Water Data for the Nation inventory

Monitoring location 385655074532601 is associated with an Atmosphere in Cape May County, New Jersey. Current conditions of Barometric pressure, Relative humidity, Temperature, and more are available. Water data back to 2024 are available online.

The weather data for this station are temporary and will only be displayed for 120 days. Although the instrumentation is calibrated at least once/year, the temporary classification means that documented routine inspections and other quality assurance measures are not performed that would make the data acceptable for archival, retrieval, or future use in general scientific or interpretive studies.
Metadata Element Location Metadata Metadata Code
Agency
U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Site identification number
385655074532601 n/a
Site name
Cape May USGS weather station NJ n/a
Site type
Atmosphere
AT
DMS latitude 385655 n/a
DMS longitude 0745326 n/a
Decimal latitude 38.9486111 n/a
Decimal longitude -74.8905556 n/a
Latitude-longitude method
Interpolated from MAP. M
Latitude-longitude accuracy
Accurate to + or - 1 sec. S
Latitude-longitude datum
North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
Decimal Latitude-longitude datum North American Datum of 1983 NAD83
District
New Jersey 34
State
New Jersey 34
County
Cape May County 009
Country US n/a
Land net location description Cape May City n/a
Name of location map Cape May n/a
Scale of location map 24000 n/a
Altitude of Gage/land surface .00 feet n/a
Method altitude determined Interpolated from topographic map. M
Altitude accuracy 10 feet n/a
Altitude datum
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NAVD88
Subbasin hydrologic unit
Great Egg Harbor 02040302
Drainage basin
n/a
Topographic setting
n/a
Flags for instruments at site NNNNYNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN n/a
Date of first construction
n/a
Date site established or inventoried 20080827 n/a
Drainage area
n/a
Contributing drainage area n/a
Time Zone abbreviation EST n/a
Site honors Daylight Saving Time
Y n/a
Data reliability
n/a
Data-other GW files n/a
National aquifer n/a
Local aquifer n/a
Local aquifer type
n/a
Well depth n/a
Hole depth
n/a
Source of depth data n/a
Project number n/a

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