After a break in wet weather on Saturday – and mild temperatures in the afternoon – another hurricane system will make its way to New Jersey on Sunday, and a few inches of snow could fall in the mountainous areas of the northern counties of the state, forecasters said. .
Sunday’s storm is expected to bring most of the rain to most parts of the garden state, although temperatures in some northern and western parts should be cool enough to allow for some snowfall and early Sunday morning and early Sunday night.
The New York Regional Office of Meteorology, which operates in northeastern New Jersey, says that with a light coating of ice in Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Union counties, western Pacific County could accumulate 3 to 4 inches of snow.
The agency’s Mount Holly office fee, which handles 16 of New Jersey’s 21 counties, is calling for a mix of snow and thinning in Sussex County, with potential for 2 to 4 inches in high-terrain areas and mild accumulation in valleys.
Sunday, forecasters say. Parts of northern New Jersey may experience light snow in January. Early Monday, January 4th.National Weather Service
Forecasters say light and cold showers in parts of northern New Jersey on Sunday, Jan January, could mix with light snow, early Monday, January, early Monday.National Weather Service
No winter weather formal advice was given until early Saturday morning, but the weather service noted in a dangerous weather perspective that light snow and thinning could accumulate Sunday night in Morris and Warren counties, and chilly rain in Hunterdon. And Somerset Counties.
Before Sunday’s hurricane system arrives, the morning clouds in New Jersey will be seen breaking, in part. Saturday afternoon with sunny skies and temperatures will rise to a low of 50 in the northern counties and an upper 50 in the southern counties.
It is 10 to 15 degrees warmer than usual in early January.
Sunday storm time
In its Saturday forecast discussion, the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office says light rain is expected early Sunday morning from the leading edge near the reading of the Atlantic City line from southwest to Philadelphia. The rain will extend into eastern Pennsylvania and the rest of New Jersey on Sunday morning and should continue until Sunday evening before pulling our northeast and east late Sunday night. “
The meteorological service says parts of Hunterturn and Somerset County are likely to receive cold showers from the start, but the meteorological service says “any cooling rain should change the rainfall quickly as temperatures there gradually rise from the cooling point.”
Along the Interstate 78 corridor and in the north, the weather service expects a mixed mix of snow, thin and possibly free cooling. “This mix should change with a little accumulation of snow and / or ice in all the rain in the valleys during the afternoon,” the agency says.
Updates will be posted on Sunday’s storm system NJ.com As more details become available.
After the clouds clear on Saturday, New Jersey will have lighter temperatures in early January.National Weather Service
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