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Clear and Cool but Nice (March 19-21)

Clear and Cool but Nice (March 19-21)

🕔23:09, 18.Mar 2021

Discussion: Precipitation should end shortly after midnight tonight (Thursday night). SNJ is finishing strong now with heavy downpours, increased winds, and possibly an isolated boomer or two. Upper-level ridging will then build over the NorthEast/Mid-Atlantic US through Monday with a

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Unsettled Conditions (March 15-19)

Unsettled Conditions (March 15-19)

🕔00:12, 15.Mar 2021

Discussion: High pressure just N of the Great Lakes is flow-teaming with low pressure in the NW Atlantic. Tight isobars between are currently (as of late-Sunday night) producing cold and gusty conditions to end the weekend and start Monday morning.

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Milder Conditions (March 8-12)

Milder Conditions (March 8-12)

🕔14:52, 8.Mar 2021

Discussion: Monday looks like a day of transition as the colder air mass departs to our NE. N/NW flow will slowly give way to W/NW and ultimately W/SW flow by early Tuesday. This will allow warmer air from the SE

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Clear but Cold (March 5-7)

Clear but Cold (March 5-7)

🕔15:23, 4.Mar 2021

Discussion: The backside of a trough over the NE US will feed our area with colder NW flow at the upper levels from now (Thursday) through most of the weekend until a narrow positive-axis trough swings through between Sunday and

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Mixed Conditions (March 1-5)

Mixed Conditions (March 1-5)

🕔15:08, 28.Feb 2021

Discussion: We should stay cold and rainy tonight into tomorrow morning as our weak but prolonged disturbance moves through. Tomorrow (Monday) winds should pick up out of the W/NW after late-AM clearing and persist into some of Tuesday. Peak wind

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Milder and Unsettled (Feb 26-28)

Milder and Unsettled (Feb 26-28)

🕔11:20, 26.Feb 2021

Discussion: An area of high pressure is moving through from W to E. It brought us a cold Thursday night but will now moderate temperatures with it’s departing return flow. The ocean is running 38-39F but the sun should take

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Feb 21: Light Snow Event approaching NNJ

Feb 21: Light Snow Event approaching NNJ

🕔15:20, 21.Feb 2021

Discussion: Tonight should be another cold one. Nothing crazy record breaking but lows dropping below freezing statewide (into 20s for much of NJ). The high pressure, that drove down the decaying Arctic air mass over NJ this weekend, will pass

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Cold Conditions (Feb 19-21)

Cold Conditions (Feb 19-21)

🕔14:56, 19.Feb 2021

Discussion: It just occurred to me that I haven’t released a fixed weekly product (Mon-Fri Outlook or Weekend Outlook) since late-January. February’s weather, so far, warranted daily wintry storm articles for the incredibly active winter pattern we’ve been in since

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Feb 17: Winter Storm Update

Feb 17: Winter Storm Update

🕔16:30, 17.Feb 2021

Discussion: The approaching winter storm is anything but a “start and end as snow” event. It’s an ugly mess of precipitation types including snow, sleet, freezing rain, and plain rain falling on a volatile surface line of freezing. The low

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Feb 16: Winter Storm Approaching

Feb 16: Winter Storm Approaching

🕔16:30, 16.Feb 2021

Discussion: The trend on most data over the last 24 hours has been for a colder solution Thursday-Friday. More like the solution I was thinking yesterday (what the GFS/Euro was advertising). The reason for the data changing is that the

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