The ultimate in our collection of East Coast storms is upon us, and it may very well be the one with the largest affect relying on the place you reside.
We’re monitoring a mixture of snow, ice, and rain that’ll make for a wintry Saturday and sloppy Sunday. Winter climate advisories are posted from Central Jersey up by means of the Hudson Valley. Verify the most recent climate alerts right here.
If you have to run any errands this weekend, get them finished early. Saturday morning is the one time this weekend roads can be dry. By the afternoon, issues can be heading downhill.
With temperatures under freezing area-wide, it will likely be all snow when the precipitation begins round lunchtime. Temperatures will keep regular through the day and ultimately rise by night, initiating a changeover to combined precipitation and ultimately all rain in and round New York Metropolis.
South Jersey would be the first to transition to all rain, typically by early night. The transition will occur within the metropolis by mid to late-evening.
The Hudson Valley will see snow previous midnight. In a single day, sleet and freezing rain will combine in.
Freezing rain falls as liquid rain and instantly freezes on contact with the sub-freezing floor it lands on. It creates a sheet of ice on roads, a tough, icy shell across the snow on the bottom, and an icy layer on tree branches and energy strains, weighing them down and inflicting them to snap if sufficient ice builds up.
Ice accumulations within the Hudson Valley may attain as much as one to 2 tenths of an inch. Tree branches and energy outages normally begin to occur after 1 / 4 inch of ice build-up.
To the south, the milder temperatures and fast changeover to rain will lead to diminutive snow totals down the Jersey Shore; count on lower than an inch. Within the metropolis, on Lengthy Island, and in northern New Jersey, most of us can stay up for an extra 1 to three inches of snow. Farther north, 3 to five inches are extra doubtless.
On Sunday, rain would be the prevailing type of precipitation. It is going to flip a lot of the day prior to this’s snow into slush earlier than making it disappear completely. It’ll be a sloppy day, so carrying rain boots can be clever.
We may get a couple of pockets of heavy rain Sunday afternoon, simply because the storm system begins to exit. And should you’re in South Jersey or on Lengthy Island, you would possibly even hear thunder.
By the night, the rain will transfer out.
Totaling all of it up, the rain, snow, and ice will account for about 1 to 2 inches of liquid equal precipitation, with about half an inch to an inch of that falling as rain.
Although the timing of this technique places a damper on a lot of the weekend, a superb soaking is sorely wanted.
We’re nonetheless operating average to extreme drought circumstances throughout the area. On the draw back, the soaking we get may include remoted flooding of streets and low-lying areas.
As soon as the storm is out, we’ll get to take pleasure in a pair rain-free, sunny days at first of the week. Sadly, this sunshine is coming together with a precipitous drop in temperatures; we’ll must endure a number of days with highs under the freezing mark and mornings that’ll really feel like the teenagers and single digits. Parka climate is again in full drive.
