Good morning!
Skies are mostly clear early on this Friday morning and temperatures are nearly 15 degrees warmer than this time yesterday morning with readings ranging from the mid 30s in Clifton down to the low 20s further inland, winds are light southwesterly.
CLIFTON’S ALMANAC FOR JANUARY 22ND:
AVERAGE HIGH: 37 AVERAGE LOW: 21
RECORD HIGH: 53 – 1986 RECORD LOW: -4 – 1984
YESTERDAY’S HIGH: 44 LOW: 20 PRECIPITATION: NONE
A cold front will come through dry this afternoon and will be preceded by a brisk westerly flow of seasonably mild air. After the frontal passage a northwest flow of colder air will prevail.
Much colder and windy on Saturday despite mostly sunny skies, temperatures will have a hard time reaching the freezing mark and with wind gusts to 30 mph will make it feel even colder.
Sunday will again be a mostly sunny day as high pressure builds into our area. There will be less wind and high temperatures will be a couple of degrees higher than Saturday.
The low pressure system that we have been tracking will give our area a good chance of mainly light snow Monday night into the day on Tuesday.
High pressure will dominate our weather Wednesday and Thursday with dry conditions and seasonably cold temperatures.
Another possible storm later next week but present indications are that this storm will be too far to our south and east to give us any additional snowfall.
THE FORECAST:
TODAY – JAN 22 – Mostly sunny and breezy, highs in the mid 40s.
TONIGHT – Mostly clear, low in the mid 20s.
SATURDAY – JAN 23 – Mostly sunny, windy and cold, high in the low 30s, wind gusts to 30 mph expected.
SUNDAY – JAN 24 – Mostly sunny with diminishing winds, high in the mid 30s.
MONDAY – JAN 25 – Mostly cloudy, high in the upper 30s, chance of snow at night.
TUESDAY – JAN 26 – Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow, high in the mid 30s.
WEDNESDAY – JAN 27 – Sunny, high in the upper 30s.
THURSDAY – JAN 28 – Partly sunny, high in the mid 30s.
MARINE FORECAST: A small craft advisory is in effect until 6 a.m. Saturday morning for winds becoming northwest gusting to 30 knots, seas 3-5 feet.
OUTLOOK: A gale watch has been posted effective between 6 a.m. Saturday morning until 10 p.m. Saturday night; no advisories expected Sunday into the day on Monday; advisories possible Monday night into Tuesday.
Have a nice day and stay safe and healthy!