NWS Winter Storm Severity Index

In case I didn’t make this clear earlier, this is going to be a powerful storm. The big question is how far west will it’s impact be. For locations along the coast and New England, this will have a major impact with not only snow, but wind, tides and cold.

Computer models so far today have trended the storm to be more west that previous. If this trend continues, we will have more impact to western New Jersey and I’ll need to adjust the forecast accordingly.

These ocean storms always have a tendency to impact inland more than the computer models indicate. That is why I’m forecasting 1-3″ at the moment which is more than the NWS has forecast at the moment. Right now the “worse case” amount of snow for us around 6″ with a foot or more near the coast. If the storm tracks further to the west these numbers will go up.

Again Thursday is the day for this storm.

Bitter Cold and Wind After The Storm

I also want to highlight that no matter how much snow we get from this storm, it will be very windy later Thursday, Friday and even Saturday somewhat. Besides the wind it WILL GET EVEN COLDER THAN IT IS NOW. We could very well co below zero for low temperatures Saturday and Sunday morning.

The only good news for warmer weather fans is it looks to turn warmer next week and hopefully we should get closer to normal which is highs in the mid 30’s!