Western Jersey Weather

Most areas had wind gust in the upper 30’s or low 40’s yesterday. Stewartsville recorded a gust to 40 mph.

The winds will let up a little today but it will still be breezy. The winds combined with relatively dry conditions will continue our Red Flag warning for today. Please do not light any fires today. The swirling winds can easily make them get out of control.

Regarding the freeze warning early this morning, Stewartsville only dropped to 35 but as you can see in the map above many northern sections went into the upper 20’s.

Tonight shouldn’t be nearly as cold as last night but still chilly. Saturday’s high temperatures will continue about 5 degrees below normal but warmer than yesterdays.

Easter Sunday is the pick of the weekend. Not only should the winds be lighter, but we will have warmer temperatures into the mid and perhaps upper 60’s. The only downside, besides not able to physically go to church, is there will be more clouds than sun. This is in response to our next weather maker which will give us a pretty good soaking Sunday night into most of Monday.

Most areas late Sunday night into Monday should pick up 1-1.5″ of new rain. Luckily as most trees and vegetation is tarting to come to life, most of this should be absorbed into the ground with minimal flood threat.

As the warmer air arrives along with the precipitation, there is a chance for or rumble or two of thunder Sunday night into Monday. As you can see in the map above this will be more pronounced further to our south and west.

Looking ahead to next week and beyond, unfortunately our cool weather looks to prevail. There may be a day or two or near to above normal temperatures as weather systems move into and through our area. But overall April’s second half is trending cooler. This is unfortunate as everyone wants to get outside to avoid cabin fever.

Some light showers are in far northern New Jersey this morning. We should remain mostly cloudy on Friday with some scattered showers around but high temperatures should be in the low 60’s

The weather map above shows the shower chance is mostly to the north with less to the south on Friday

The weather map above for Saturday is a little misleading. There could be some early morning scattered showers and again later in the evening but most of the day will be dry but cloudy. The good news is even with the clouds we should have high temperatures around 70 degrees. If the sun could manage to peek out for a bit we could even see temperatures go higher than this.

Sunday morning a cold front approaches the area and give most of western New Jersey show rain that should amount to 1/4 – 1/2″. Conditions should improve in the afternoon but temperatures will be much cooler in the mid 50’s with a breeze becoming more noticable. Temperatures will fall into the 40’s by sunset.

Looking ahead to next week we remain cool and below normal Monday and Tuesday but back to normal on Wednesday and beyond.

We need to keep an eye on the potential for a coastal storm in the Tuesday-Wednesday timeframe. It’s unsure right now how close to the coast the storm will impact. Right now it looks to be mostly coastal locations and to the east.