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New Jersey’s brutal heat wave just got even more brutal — with the temperature soaring into the triple digits at Newark Liberty Airport Friday afternoon. That’s the word from the National Weather Service, which recorded 100 degrees in Newark at two different times, once around 2:15 p.m. and again at 3:45 p.m., according to Dominic Ramunni, a meteorologist at the agency’s New York regional office. Although those readings are technically unofficial until they are reviewed at the end of the day, if they hold up, it would mean Newark tied its all-time highest temperature for June 21. The record wa…

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