Scene Around: Weather, Tides, COVID, PIcs & a Meeting

Well, the week has begun with an awful lot of silence around Rumson and Fair Haven. The sounds of the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair are missing.

It’s a historic summer’s end without the fair bringing all in the area together for some traditional homecomings. Fair unions and reunions run deep. For more than a century, all’s fair in Fair Haven for that last week in August. Fair grounds are grounds for making some lasting memories and revisiting them in the same spot year after year … a lifetime’s worth.

So, this week, R-FH Retro will do some fair remembrance in a special series so all can read all about it and remember the little big things that put the heart into home. No, there’s no money tree in the back yard, but the fair ghosts will tell you that there’s a big pot of gold on the fair grounds that you don’t have to go far to find. Yes, in your back yard.

So, the weather forecast is fair enough for a fair, but the COVID-19 pandemic pushed it aside for safety’s sake. No Zipper ride under clear skies. No fresh fried seafood, snappy hot dogs, cotton candy or creamy ice cream. Just an empty fair food gullet, firetruck ride siren-free silence filling the streets where you live, and clear skies threatened by a few days’ worth of thunderstorms.

The weather this week ….

While temperatures have remained pretty level, humidity has escalated to about 51 percent. While yesterday was sunny and hot, tonight there is a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Tomorrow, Wednesday, it’s supposed to be clear and sunny with a high of 79 degrees. But, the rest of the “unfair” week is threatening a 40 to 50 percent chance of thunderstorms with temperatures in the low- to mid-80s.

Click here for more details from the National Weather Service.

Tides, sunrise, sunset …

If you’re fishing, it’s an ideal time right now. High tide is rolling in at 3:11 p.m.. Sunrise was at 6:18 a.m. and the sun will set in Sea Bright at 7:38 p.m.. The next low tide will be at 9:35 p.m.. The water temperature in Sea Bright is averaging 76 degrees.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, the sun will rise at 6:19 a.m. and the sun will set at 7:36 p.m.. The first high tide will roll in at 3:33 a.m. and the next at 4:09 p.m.. Low tides are expected at 9:46 a.m. and 10:45 p.m..

Check here for the rest of the week.

Meeting …

There’s been a lot of controversial talk about facilities planning in Fair Haven and lots of plans devised, scrapped and reformulated.

The latest edict is that the police want to stay put, officials said at a previous meeting after talking with them.

The issue will once again be discussed at a special meeting. Officials are urging residents to listen in offer input on this one.

Here are more details …

TONIGHT IS A WORKSHOP MEETING REGARDING THE BOROUGH’S FACILITIES.

Please attend and participate in the discussion. The Council has listened to the residents and the professionals and need to make decisions by taking all of the information and investigation into consideration and move the process forward in a deliberate process.

Click below to join …

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The COVID case update …

As of Tuesday, there are 22 new positive cases of COVID-19 in Monmouth County and no reported deaths.

In the Rumson-Fair Haven area cases are at totals of: 48 in Fair Haven, 76 in Rumson, 51 in Little Silver, 11 in Sea Bright and 329 in Red Bank.

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