A hot and steamy day brought people out to Jersey Shore beaches in droves Saturday afternoon, one day after two towns announced that they were planning on limiting the number of beach badges they could sell on any given day.

The beaches at Belmar looked crowded during the afternoon but it was not clear if officials there ever had to cut off the the sale of badges.

Belmar has capped the number of daily beach badges that can be sold at 7,500 per day. Nearby Manasquan set a limit of 1,000 per day on Saturdays and Sundays for any type of beach badge.

Meanwhile, in the popular beach towns of Asbury Park and Ocean City, where no such restrictions were in place, beachgoers headed down to bask in the sun and take a dip in the ocean to escape the searing temperatures which crept into the low nineties.

Temperatures will stay hot for the next few days, with heat indexes of 100 degrees possible at times between Sunday and Tuesday.

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Michael Mancuso may be reached at mmancuso@njadvancemedia.com.

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