Yes, it feels like a furnace outside this weekend as New Jersey’s brutal July heat wave keeps churning. But it could be worse. Even though the Garden State is more than 2,000 miles away from Death Valley, the hottest place in America, we occasionally get a brief taste of that type of sizzling heat in our neck of the woods. The mercury once climbed as high as 110 degrees in New Jersey, back in July 1936. That continues to be the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Garden State, according to the office of the New Jersey State Climatologist at Rutgers University, which maintains weather reco…
