Good morning everyone!
Skies are mostly clear early on this Tuesday morning and temperatures are the coldest so far this season with temperatures at 5 a.m. ranging from 17 in Clifton down to 9 at High Point. Winds are a little gusty out of the northwest.
CLIFTON’S ALMANAC FOR JANUARY 4TH:
AVERAGE HIGH: 37 AVERAGE LOW: 22
RECORD HIGH: 65 – 2000 RECORD LOW: 1 – 1981
YESTERDAY’S HIGH: 34 LOW: 21 PRECIPITATION: NONE
The storm that gave southern New Jersey up to a foot of snow and not even a flake here has moved well offshore and high pressure is building into our area. Today we will finally have a sunny day and it will be cold but with diminishing winds by this afternoon so it will not feel as harsh as yesterday.
A weak disturbance will give us a chance of mainly rain showers on Wednesday that may be mixed with freezing rain early in the morning. High temperatures will rise into the 40s.
Weak high pressure on Thursday will give us dry conditions with seasonably cold temperatures.
Friday a storm system will likely give us snow mainly Friday morning and at this time accumulations look to be on the light side with 1-3 inches possible, however the storm is three days away so those amounts may be changed.
After a dry Saturday another low pressure may give us rain on Sunday possibly beginning as snow.
Dry and quite cold weather early next week.
THE FORECAST:
TODAY – JAN 4 – Sunny with diminishing winds, high in the upper 30s.
TONIGHT – Increasing clouds with a chance of patchy freezing rain after 4 a.m., low in the upper 20s.
WEDNESDAY – JAN 5 – Chance of freezing rain before 9 a.m. then a chance of rain, high in the mid 40s.
THURSDAY – JAN 6 – Partly sunny, high near 40.
FRIDAY – JAN 7 – Cloudy in the morning with snow likely then becoming partly sunny in the afternoon, high in the low-mid 30s.
SATURDAY – JAN 8 – Sunny, high in the mid 30s.
SUNDAY – JAN 9 – Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain possibly mixed with snow in the morning, high in the mid 40s.
MONDAY – JAN 10 – Mostly sunny, high in the upper 30s.
MARINE FORECAST: A small craft advisory is in effect until 4 p.m. this afternoon for northwest winds gusting to 25 knots, seas 4-7 feet.
OUTLOOK – Advisories possible tonight through the day on Thursday; no advisories expected Thursday night; advisories expected on Friday; no advisories expected on Saturday.
Have a nice day and stay safe!