A shot from last year’s show.
Red Bank Fire Marshal Stanley Sickels, who decides whether the fireworks are safe to go or not, tells redbankgreen that the Kaboom Fireworks on the Navesink show “absolutely” will go on tonight.
Only winds over 20 mph or a “torrential” downpour will derail that plan, he says.
“We’ll shoot right through [a less than torrential rainfall] if we have to,” he says.
But he adds that he doesn’t think today’s off-and-on rains will persist past the 9:15p scheduled start of the show. “I think it’s going to push through,” he says of the weather system.
Here’s the latest from the National Weather Service:
Late Afternoon: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. West wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. West wind between 7 and 9 mph.
But even a modest rain is no impediment to the spectacle, as the shells will still loft and explode as designed, Chris Santore of Garden State Fireworks, the company providing the show, tells us.
