April Showers Bring…Oh Nevermind

Once the snow moves out, we should see quiet but cold weather Wednesday through Saturday. Temperature variation is just one of the challenges with these storms.

National Weather Service meteorologist David Stark blamed multiple cold fronts from Canada for the late snowfalls. An inch or two of snow is possible from Thursday afternoon into early Friday morning, but no major impacts are expected.

Heavier snow fell in North Jersey and New York City and has led to the cancellation of the Yankees’ home opener and the Phillies-Mets game at Citi Field.

Some Lawrence County residents awoke yesterday morning to see almost 3 inches of snow left by an overnight snowstorm.

However, snowfall in April isn’t unusual, Margraf said, with an average of 2.4 inches falling on the Twin Cities throughout the month. The good news is that road temperatures are rather warm so we shouldn’t have too many issues there. Winds could gust as high as 31 miles per hour. We already have a cooler than normal air mass across us, so continued cool weather for a while. Accumulations look to be as little as a coating up towards the New Hampshire border but as much as 3 maybe even an isolated 4-inch amount across the interior areas towards the south coast, and near Cape Cod.

Patchy blowing snow is expected after 2 p.m. with a high near 33 degrees.

The slushy dirty mess was already evident on Norwood Ave in Long Branch and made for slippery and just miserable conditions for anyone having to venture out early today. “High temperatures Monday afternoon in the 40s will lead to rapid melting”. “It is still a ways out and there is a lot of uncertainty with them yet”.

DeWald said the cold conditions and the rain-snow mix in early April are far from unusual for the area, which had been known to get snow as late as early May.

“We really haven’t had the warm-ups that we usually see”, Margraf said. “It’s going to come eventually, but it won’t be until the middle or later in April”.