Our active climate pattern continues to produce more winter storms, with a new one expected to impact New Jersey over the next three days and potentially a second approaching this weekend, meteorologists said Tuesday afternoon.
The next winter storm is expected to arrive in two waves – the first from Wednesday night until Thursday morning and the second from Thursday night until Friday morning, said Dean Iovino, a meteorologist at the National Service’s regional forecast office. Jersey Weather Report.
A good trend, if you are tired of all this snow: “The impact of it will be a little further south” than originally projected, said Iovino.
As a result, the storm system is likely to hit places like Maryland and southern Delaware with heavy snow and will bring lighter snow accumulations to New Jersey, Iovino said.
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In the first wave of the storm on Wednesday night and early Thursday, the National Weather Service is forecasting 5 to 7 inches of snow in South Jersey, 1 to 3 inches of snow in Central Jersey and less than 2.5 cm in North Jersey.
There is some potential for mixed precipitation and some ice formation in the southern tip of New Jersey, especially near the coast, Iovino said.
AccuWeather meteorologists say there is a risk of snow and ice in the southern tip of New Jersey on Thursday, February 11, 2021.AccuWeather
In the second wave of the storm, mainly from Thursday night until early Friday, the weather service expects another 1-2 inches of snow in South Jersey and little, if any, snow in the northern half of the state, if current trends the forecast continues.
AccuWeather meteorologists are asking for similar snow accumulations during the duration of this storm: A total of 1 to 3 inches of snow in North Jersey and Central Jersey, and 3 to 6 inches of snow in South Jersey.
As soon as the storm system clears on Friday afternoon, all eyes will be focused on a potential coastal storm over the weekend.
“The weather and the track are very uncertain at the moment,” said Iovino, so the weather service is still unsure how much snow, if any, New Jersey will have this weekend.
Thanks to a big snowstorm the week before Christmas and the monstrous winter storm that fell 1 to 2 feet of snow over a large strip of our region, parts of northern and central New Jersey have already received more snow than usual. receive throughout the snow season – which technically runs from October to April.
But so far, no monthly or seasonal records have been broken.
The total snowfall so far in the Newark area has been about 20 centimeters higher than the region normally reaches throughout the snow season. And much winter remains.Len Melisurgo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
In the Newark area, this month is currently the 10th snowiest February on record – and we still have 19 days to go. Newark collected 21.7 inches of snow from February 1 to 8, according to data from the New York regional office of the National Weather Service.
The Newark area normally receives 9.3 inches of snow throughout the month, and its record is 33.4 inches, established in 1994.
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