SPSPHI from 3/3/2019 5:01 PM to 11:15 PM EST for Hunterdon County, Warren County, Northampton County: Heavy snow will impact the area over the next several hours. More information.
In what could be the biggest snowfall of the season will get underway later this afternoon. Today will see increasing clouds and somewhat mild temperatures, especially compared to the upcoming week, with pleasant temperatures. The temperatures may result in the precipitation starting off as some light rain or mix of rain and snow briefly. Once the precipitation starts to get heavier and nightfall approaches any mixed precipitation will go over to all snow.
Timing: Look for snow or mixed precipitation to start around 3-4 pm from SW to NE.
Peak: Look for the heaviest snow, perhaps approaching 1″ per hour, from around 7 pm to 1 am.
End: Snow should finish before sunrise
Western New Jersey is in the bullseye of heaviest snow for this storm. Some areas just to the south and east of us may actually see some enhancement from thunderstorm or two. If you hear or see this, you will automatically know your in a bonus snow area and can add on a few inches of snow!
My forecast remains 4-8″ for most areas with locally higher amounts where the heavy snow bands setup.
Winter Storm Warning is in place for all areas of western New Jersey.
After this storm passes, much colder and breezy weather will be in store for the new week. Look at the forecast low temperatures in the single digits Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings!
Make sure you remove any snow from areas that need to have it removed or else it will be frozen solid in place for most of the upcoming week.
Any I hope no one put away the winter coats, scarfs and boot – you will need them this week!
New event. Winter Storm Warning from 3/3/2019 3:00 PM to 3/4/2019 7:00 AM EST for Hunterdon County, Warren County, Northampton County. More information.
4.3″ of new snow fell overnight in Stewartsville and surrounding areas overnight. The snow started around midnight give or take and tapered off to flurries around 9 am.
Our Winter WEather Advisory expired at 9 am this morning. But it will be soon replaced with a Winter Storm Watch that will go in effect at 1 pm Sunday afternoon.
The next storm looks to begin in our area Sunday afternoon. This storm will be the biggest and last of the series. For our area this appears to be an all snow at this time. The same areas that received the most snow today look to repeat tomorrow. The good news is the worse of the storm will be Sunday night and early Monday morning before sun-up. I anticipate schools will be closed and traveled delayed for a while Monday morning.
Based an what I’m seeing now I’m going to forecast 4-8″ of snow for the Sunday-Monday storm. The real question is will this be the biggest snow of the season for us? We received over 7″ back in November.
As we are too aware, March is turning into a new extended winter season for us. The above photo was taken on this date last year. There have been several March’s in the past few years that have been cold and snowy. We certainly will have the cold part next week but I’m anticipating a return to normal and maybe even a warm up starting in around 10 days.
New event. Winter Storm Watch from 3/3/2019 1:00 PM to 3/4/2019 7:00 AM EST for Hunterdon County, Warren County, Northampton County. More information.
Event extended (time). Winter Weather Advisory from 3/2/2019 3:35 AM to 9:00 AM EST for Hunterdon County, Warren County, Northampton County. More information.
New event. Winter Weather Advisory from 3/1/2019 9:00 PM to 3/2/2019 7:00 AM EST for Hunterdon County, Warren County, Northampton County. More information.
1″ of new snow was recorded in Stewartsville overnight. This resulted in many schools having a delayed opening this Friday morning.
The snow has moved to our east. Except for some flurries, skies should remain mostly cloudy today and continued below normal temperatures with highs in the 30’s.
The next fast moving system will waste no time moving into our area. We could see some light snow or snow showers move into western New Jersey this evening. This system will have more snow accumulations to the north. In fact south of our area, should change over to rain at some point. The snow looks to end Saturday morning. My snow forecast for this system is 1-3″ at this time. More to the north and less to the south. I’ll be keeping an eye today on the potential that we could receive more snow from this system. Some of the guidance has been suggesting we could see a little more.
The other thing I will be keeping an eye on today is the *next* storm system in our parade of systems. This one looks to arrive as early as Sunday afternoon and last into Monday morning. This one looks to be the strongest of the series and has the potential of delivering plowable snow to our area.
Regardless of what happens with this system next week looks COLD! HOpefully it will be winter’s last gasp…
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