Afternoon European Model Update

The European model continues to insist that we will be receiving accumulating snow on Friday night into Saturday morning and accumulating snow and ice for Sunday night into early Monday morning.  The model is currently projecting a dusting to 2 inches of snow for Southern Hunterdon, Somerset, Union, Hudson, Essex and Eastern Bergen Counties, and 2-4 inches for Northern Hunterdon, Warren, Morris, Sussex, Passaic, and Western Bergen Counties.  The higher amounts in each of those areas are as you head to the north and west.  The rain will change to snow on Friday night, between around 10 pm and 12 midnight on Saturday morning and will end around 4am on Saturday.  Then on Sunday the next storm will approach, bringing more snow starting around 5 pm.  The snow will then mix with and change to sleet and freezing rain, then to rain by around 2-4 am on Monday morning.  The model is projecting similar amounts of snow and ice with the storm on Sunday night.  The snow should change to rain in all areas by around 2-4 am on Monday morning but it could make for a difficult commute on Monday morning.  Then it will get very cold for the middle of next week with some areas likely to drop into the single digits by Wednesday morning.  Then we will have to wait and see if a Nor'easter develops toward the end of next week.  There are many questions with that possibility though so we will have to wait and see on that one at this point.  Check back for my evening update tonight.