Saturday Morning's Weather Discussion, 3-6 Inches of Snow Likely Today, Maybe a Little Snow For New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, Then Dangerously Cold

The snow should start between 8:00am and 10:00am throughout Northern New Jersey this morning and end between 8:00pm and 10:00pm, with 3-6 inches of accumulation, as we are sideswiped by a developing Nor’easter that will bring Eastern New England blizzard conditions tonight and tomorrow morning.  After this storm passes, the next concern will be a weak storm system that will be heading our way at a very inopportune time, for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.  This weak storm system may bring some light snow or flurries to our area for both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.  The snow could accumulate to a dusting to an inch on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.  After this weak storm system passes, the temperatures will drop to dangerous levels by Thursday morning, when low temperatures are likely to be around zero throughout Northern New Jersey, with many areas likely to be below zero.  Then we will have to watch a storm system developing in the Gulf of Mexico.  The extremely cold air in place over our area late next week will likely keep this storm system to our south and east, but we will need to watch it closely just in case.  If by any chance this storm comes further north into our area, then it would actually warm things up a bit as the clouds and any snow that would develop would help insulate us from the extreme cold, but right now the cold is looking more likely to win this battle.  Then another storm system will likely approach our area for next weekend, but again, it may be kept south and east of our area by the extremely cold air mass in place over our area.