Good morning everyone!
Skies are mostly cloudy early on this Wednesday morning and temperatures are milder than the last few morning with 5 a.m. readings ranging from 31 in Clifton down to 12 at Basking Ridge and Pequest. Winds are mainly calm.
CLIFTON’S ALMANAC FOR FEBRUARY 2ND:
AVERAGE HIGH: 37 AVERAGE LOW: 22
RECORD HIGH: 56 – 2014 RECORD LOW: 2 – 1993
YESTERDAY’S HIGH: 37 LOW: 19 PRECIPITATION: NONE
High pressure will be moving offshore and today will be a mostly cloudy but milder day as highs reach the low 40s. Tonight will continue to be mostly cloudy to cloudy with temperatures nearly steady in the upper 30s.
A frontal system will give us rain along with continued mild temperatures on Thursday. Rain will continue at night.
The front will move offshore sometime on Friday with colder air moving into our area. Rain will then change to a wintery mix by the afternoon of freezing rain, sleet and snow showers with the precipitation ending by Friday evening. An inch or two of liquid precipitation Thursday into Friday with possibly a half inch of sleet and a tenth of ice so travel may become hazardous Friday afternoon and evening.
Cold high pressure will cause dry conditions along with cold temperatures on the weekend.
Mainly dry weather early next week with near seasonable temperatures. A low pressure is expected to develop offshore but it should stay well to our south and east on Monday.
THE FORECAST:
TODAY – FEB 2 – Mostly cloudy, high in the low 40s.
TONIGHT – Cloudy, low in the upper 30s.
THURSDAY – FEB 3 – Cloudy with rain, high in the mid 40s.
FRIDAY – FEB 4 – Cloudy with rain changing to a mixture of sleet, freezing rain and snow by the afternoon and ending in the evening, temperatures dropping to the upper 20s by sunset.
SATURDAY – FEB 5 – Sunny, high in the upper 20s.
SUNDAY – FEB 6 – Mostly sunny, high in the mid 30s.
MONDAY – FEB 7 – Partly sunny, high near 40.
TUESDAY – FEB 8 – Mostly sunny, high in the upper 30s.
MARINE FORECAST: A small craft advisory is in effect till 10 p.m. tonight for high seas, winds northeast around 10 knots, seas 4-5 feet.
OUTLOOK – No advisories expected during the day on Thursday; advisories likely Thursday night through the day on Saturday; advisories still possible for higher seas Saturday night through Sunday.
CLIFTON’S CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 2022.
January’s temperature average 2 degrees below normal and made it the coldest January since 2015. The high temperature was 57 degrees on the 2nd, lowest 6 degrees on the 16th. Precipitation was slightly below normal with 3.14″ accumulating. Snowfall was above normal with 14.1 inches, much higher snow amounts down the shore with Atlantic City having the snowiest January on record.
Have a nice and safe day and Happy Groundhog Day!