First off Happy New Year to all faithful blog readers! As you can feel in the air today, the new year and new month has brought a change in the weather. The above normal pattern appears to have finally changed. In fact while temperatures the next few days will be closer to normal for early January, they will feel much colder to us since we’re used to warmer weather.

And more is on the way for western New Jersey. Some of the coldest air of the young season will be moving into our area Monday into Tuesday. Both of those days will barely get above freezing and morning lows can be in the upper single digits or low teens’s.

Yes is is January and this type of weather isn’t all that unusual. We’ve all been spoiled by the warm start to winter. There were even a few snow flurries in sports today. As you can see in the above map there’s more to our west. The Lake Effect snow machine is on and will be giving the usual places snow.

With colder air in place we need to start watching for moisture and see if the two can coincide. There are some signs of traditional winter weather so stay tuned! And Happy New Year!