If you’re reading this in the morning, do not go outside and drive or walk until it warms up! There are MANY accidents and reports of people slipping and falling and breaking things!
Freezing rain advisory this morning until 1pm. Rain will be heavy at times until mid afternoon.
Cold start this Saturday with early morning lows in the upper single digits in western new jersey. Today will be a partly sunny day (clouds increasing in the afternoon) with highs in the mid to upper 20’s. Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts. Clouds are already starting to increase to our west and south west from tomorrows rain maker. Look for temperatures to drop early this evening into the teens then slowly rise overnight to the mid to upper 20’s by day break.
As you can see above in the maps Sunday will be wet. More rain will fall to our east. Western new jersey will be on the western fringe of the rainfall. Expect rain to start on Sunday by mid morning and end by mid afternoon. It may start off as a little sleet or snow in the beginning but then go over to rain. I’m expecting 1/4” to 1/2” in this area. Over 1” of rain will fall in eastern new jersey near the shore.
Our next chance of precipitation will be a clipper on late Tuesday into Wednesday. Right now it looks to stay to our north which will put us on the warm side. We could see some light snow over to light rain. More details as we get closer. Enjoy a cold Saturday!
An artic cold front has passed through western new jersey. this will bring back cold and windy conditions to western new jersey.
Look for cold temperatures on Friday night and Saturday morning. Overnight lows will be in the single digits. Combined with the wind will not make it pleasant outside.
The front is bringing in some snow showers that will move through the area this afternoon.
Saturday will be cold with high in the mid 20’s.
Sunday out weather will change fast with a storm system moving up the coast. At this time it looks to stay far enough to the east that will give us only light rain. Further to the east, they will have a wind swept rain with over 1” of rain. The rain will end perhaps as some snow showers Sunday night as colder air returns.
Typical winter weather continues for western New Jersey. Today we have clouds from a system to our south and east. Further to the north, partly to mostly sunny skies are seen. It would be nice if that could make it here!
the sun should return on Friday. A reinforcing shot of cold air will arrive on Friday so Friday night and Saturday will be cold once again. Then our January “thaw” arrives on Sunday. Right now it looks like temperatures will make it into the low 40’s. Unfortunately warmer air brings moisture with it and mostly rain is expected. There could be some frozen precipitation if it arrives soon enough or if colder air comes in fast at the end. Then we return to slightly below normal cold next week with no major snow storms in the near term. The potential is there for the weekend of the 24th. We’ll see…
Monday morning started off icy as mentioned yesterday.
What I found very interesting with this mornings ice is there was none on the trees – only the ground and roads. that tells me the air temperature was slightly above freezing but the ground was very cold from the preceding weather.
So far we picked up .41” of rain as of 5pm. Another light band of rain is moving through presently. There is some additional light rain and snow in central and western PA associated with the cold front that will move through later tonight. So we may see a little bit of frozen precipitation before it is all said and done.
Colder weather returns for Tuesday and Wednesday. Then a gradual moderation later in the week into the weekend.
Monday mornings commute is shaping up to be not fun. It looks like snow sleet and freezing rain will move into western new jersey after 3 am Monday morning. It will probably start out as a little snow then quickly go over to sleet and freezing rain. The good news is we should see plain rain by mid day. Also the roads appear to still have plenty of treatment still on them. The bad news is it’s been cold lately and all the surfaces are cold and below freezing. I believe the biggest concern will be icing. The NWS map above shows the potential amount of icing for us: 1/10 to 1/4”
So delay travel if possible Monday morning or leave today/earlier. After that we have a brief cold spell again followed by temperatures return to the 30’s which should hopefully feel warm to us as long as there is no wind!
As mentioned yesterday, we received a dusting (0.2”) of snow early this morning. What I found interesting is the snow looked like little cotton balls or what you find in packing material. Which I found strange since it was plenty cold and I didn’t think there was an warm air aloft which usually result in the tips of snowflakes getting melted off like this.
Today will not be terrible by recent days measure. The snow has moved out of the western new jersey area for the most part. We will see some flurries or snow showers today. High temperatures will be in the upper 20’s to around 30. The winds will pick up a little later on today and be gusty. This will lead to a cold night with lows in the mid to upper single digits.
The weekend will be partly sunny and cold. Saturday more so than Sunday with a high of 20 and 30 respectively.
Out next chance of precipitation will be later Sunday night into Monday. Right now it looks icy. More details will be posted as we get closer.
The overnight low for western jersey was 5 degrees. I’ve only seen below freezing temperatures up north in Sussex county. Yesterday we did receive a snow squall as mentioned and it did drop 0.1” of snow. I tried to record a time lapse video of its arrival but my camera batteries died just as the snow arrived 
Today will be more of the same. The wind shouldn’t be as bad as yesterday but it will still be there. We should have high temperatures in the upper teens. Tonight should be quite as cold as last night with a low around 11. There could be some late night or early Friday morning snow showers as another clipper will pass to our north on Friday. It’s possible we pick up another coating of snow mostly Friday morning. This will also resupply cold air over the region into the weekend. The next chance of snow will be Monday/Tuesday. More on that as we get closer.
In the past 24 hours we picked up 1.6” of snow from yesterday’s fast moving clipper. This included .3” of snow overnight from a snow shower that passed thru the area.
Tonight is shaping up to be the coldest night of the year and season so far.
A reinforcing shot of cold air will arrive today. This will probably be accompanied by some snow showers or even snow squalls. These could put down a dusting to an inch or so in local spots. Best time for this is mid-day into the afternoon. Wednesday evening and Thursday morning will feature low temperatures in the lower single digits in western new jersey area.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind chill advisory from 7 pm tonight until Thursday morning.
Thursday will continue to be a cold winter day with high temperatures not being very high: only in the upper teens!
Winter weather will continue into the weekend with the possibility of breaking freezing Sunday or Monday.
Light snow overspread the area in the early morning hours. So far 1/2” of light fluffy snow has fallen. It’s not expected for us to pick up that much more additional. What is important to note is what falls will stay around well into the weekend so even though its cold today, get out and shovel what needs to be done. Highs in western new jersey today will be in the low to mid 20’s.
Wednesday will be a blustery and cold day with scattered snow showers and highs again in the low to mid 20’s. Then we really get cold Wednesday night and Thursday morning with low temperatures expected to be in the low to mid single digits. Thursday will be the coldest day of the winter so far with daytime highs struggling to get out of the teens.
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