Alan’s Back – 01/03/12

Well, it's great to be back from a long vacation.

And certainly, temperatures are going to be begin feeling more like winter time than it has recently.  Although it reached the low 40s Sunday, it reached the 50s on Saturday.    There is nothing like that for the next couple of days.

Temperatures today with the mix of sunshine and patchy clouds will probably be no better than the low 30s, maybe as high as the middle 30s in far southern New Jersey.  It will be windy today, so it'll feel colder than it really is.

Tonight's temperatures will be down into the teens.  Perhaps closer to the upper teens to near 20 south coast, but teens and maybe even some single digits in northwestern New Jersey.  Again, this is without any snow cover that we have at all.

Now, we have a disturbance coming by tomorrow that could produce some snow flurries or snow showers late morning or afternoon.  Guidance isn't very bullish on this, but certainly upper 20s to low 30s at best will be the highest temperatures Wednesday afternoon.

And Thursday, after the chance of some early morning clouds and maybe some early morning precipitation will have some sunshine returning.  Temperatures should recover to the low to middle 40s.