Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 - Morning Weather Discussion

The cold weather has arrived, now we have to watch as a storm will start to develop along the Gulf Coast.  This storm will move northeast, however it now appears that it will take a track that will put the center of low pressure right along the New Jersey Coast.  This will allow warm air to surge north as the storm approaches (I hear the sighs of relief already).  The precipitation may very well start as light snow, sleet, or freezing rain, around 3 or 4 pm on Tuesday afternoon, but it should change to rain around 8 pm as the warm air moves into our area.  The rain will become heavy at times overnight on Tuesday and will come to an end by around 5-6 am on Wednesday morning.  There will be just a chance of a snow shower or flurry during the day on Wednesday behind the storm.  Thanksgiving and Black Friday will then be very cold, with highs both days only in the low 30’s and lows will reach the low to mid 20’s on Thanksgiving morning and the upper teens to low 20’s for Black Friday morning.  Next weekend may then get even colder with the lows possibly reaching the single digits in some locations by Sunday morning and highs likely not making it out of the 20’s.  Then the following week we will need to watch for the possibility of another Nor'easter developing around the middle of the week.  This storm would again bring us the chance for some precipitation.  Right now it appears more likely that it would be snow as temperatures should be much colder by that time as we get into December.