Good morning everyone!
Skies are mostly clear early on this Saturday morning and there is some frost and freezes in parts of the area. Early morning temperatures range from 43 in Clifton down to 26 at Walpack. Winds are calm or light northerly.
CLIFTON’S ALMANAC FOR OCTOBER 29TH:
AVERAGE HIGH: 59 AVERAGE LOW: 40
RECORD HIGH: 72 – 1984 RECORD LOW: 27 – 1985
YESTERDAY’S HIGH: 57 LOW: 41 PRECIPITATION: NONE
NOTE: Today is the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy and the 11th anniversary of the October snowstorm that dumped around 6 inches of snow that caused many power outages due to the snow falling on trees that still had most of their leaves.
High pressure over our area will give us a sunny day today with near seasonable temperatures and light winds.
Still quite nice on Sunday with mostly sunny skies and high temperatures a couple of degrees higher than today.
It now appears that Halloween will not be as wet as expected with only a chance of light showers mainly after 8 p.m., so better news now for trick – or – treaters.
Mainly dry and mild the rest of the week as high pressure builds back into our area.
THE FORECAST:
TODAY – OCT 29 – Sunny, high in the upper 60s.
TONIGHT – Clear, low in the upper 30s.
SUNDAY – OCT 30 – Sunny, high n the mid 60s.
HALLOWEEN – OCT 31 – Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers, high in the mid 60s.
TUESDAY – NOV 1 – Mostly cloudy in the morning with a chance of a shower then becoming partly sunny in the afternoon, high near 70.
WEDNESDAY – NOV 2 – Sunny, high near 70.
THURSDAY – NOV 3 – Mostly sunny, high in the mid 60s.
FRIDAY – NOV 4 – Mostly sunny, high in the upper 60s.
MARINE FORECAST: TODAY – Northeast winds to 10 knots, seas 2-3 feet.
OUTLOOK – Advisories possible for higher seas tonight through the day on Monday; no advisories expected Monday night through Wednesday.
My blog entry for October 29, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy hits our area: As of 8am this morning Hurricane Sandy was about 300 miles south-southeast of our area and has started to turn northwest toward the New Jersey coast, maximum sustained winds are at 85 MPH with higher gusts. Little or no rain has fallen in Northern New Jersey but South Jersey very heavy rain has already occurred with over three inches reported in Cape May. Top winds so far in our area have ranged 30-35 MPH in gusts while the highest gusts in New Jersey was 50 MPH on Long Beach Island. Conditions will worsen this afternoon and especially this evening as gusts up 80 MPH are quite possible here. The rain in our part of the state will not be all that bad compared to Irene with rainfall totals around 3 inches, so inland flooding should not be much of an issue.. Coastal flooding is already occurring along the New Jersey coast and will get much worse especially the northern New Jersey coast and New York Harbor where record levels are likely with devastating results. As I posted yesterday New York subways may be out of service for up to two weeks. Again in our area the story will be the wind with frequent hurricane gusts later today and tonight causing massive power outages. By Tuesday morning after the storm moves onshore winds will slowly diminish but still gusting to 50 MPH, the rain will taper off to showers and continue through the day and night
Happy 40th birthday to my son and my blog administrator Jared!
Have a nice weekend and stay safe!