Weather

It looks like New Jersey will have nice weather all weekend with no real threat of showers on Saturday or Sunday.

I joke a lot — a LOT — about the absurdity of the 1980s Broadway musical "Starlight Express," but its finale rings true to me at the end of an often gloomy weather week: There's a light at the end of the tunnel.

As the curtain rose on this exciting new event for us here at New Jersey 101.5, so did the fog rise across the Garden State on Thursday morning.

On this anniversary of my birth, I've had the lyrics of the Bob Dylan classic "My Back Pages" running through my head, and while Tuesday's weather in the Garden State was nowhere near as profound, it did surprise me.

Fog is blanketing the Garden State Tuesday morning, and the balance of the day will progress from drizzle to light rain to potential late-day thunderstorms as we settle into a very unsettled weather week.

Monday will be bright and sunny across the Garden State, but that's about the last time we can expect that kind of forecast at least until the weekend, and maybe later.

Every day from here through Easter Sunday carries with it at least a slight possibility for rain, before New Jersey finally sees the sun come out in full force on Earth Day.

For our three local teams beginning the season Thursday, it doesn't look like the weather will interrupt any gameplay.

Tuesday will be a chilly one across the Garden State, but by Wednesday, you can expect daytime temperatures to warm up by about five to 10 degrees per day through Saturday.

There's a superstition in every newsroom I've ever worked in: Never say it's a "quiet" news day. Almost as soon as those words leave your lips, inevitably, something huge will happen.