Light to moderate snow will continue to fall across New Jersey through the daytime hours on Friday causing a potentially challenging evening commute, but the latest forecast has the snow stopping in the early evening and long gone by the time most folks are heading to bed.
Snow will wind down from north to south, starting perhaps as early as dinnertime, according to an AccuWeather meteorologist.
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“I suspect that during the first half of tonight, the snow will start to taper off,” said Tom Kines, a senior meteorologist at the private forecasting company based in State College, Pennsylvania. “It will probably taper off first across the northern part of the state and them maybe an hour or two later it will end in the southern part. I think by probably 6 p.m the northern half is done with (accumulating snow) and by 8 p.m. the southern parts.”
The National Weather Service is in general agreement with AccuWeather on the timing of the snow ending.
“The evening commute will probably be impacted to some extent,” said the weather service’s Mount Holly office, which covers most of New Jersey. “Just about all guidance suggests any last bit of snow will push off the coast by 9 p.m.”
The weather service’s New York office, which covers the five northeastern counties in the Garden State, said any chance of even a few additional flakes flying will be gone by late Friday night.
“Snow chances end by late evening with partial clearing for the overnight hours,” the weather service’s New York office said.
A winter storm warning is effect until 10 p.m. for the counties expecting the higher snowfall totals, between 4 and 6 inches — Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean and Salem, the National Weather Service said.
The agency’s latest forecast map, issued around 10 a.m., includes a small pocket of 6 to 8 inches of snow predicted north of the Atlantic City Expressway along the border of Camden and Burlington counties.
A winter weather advisory is in effect for the other 16 New Jersey counties, with 2 to 3 inches of dry, powdery snow expected in North Jersey and 3 to 4 inches across counties along Interstate 195 in central New Jersey. The Jersey Shore is expecting 2 inches of snow.
AccuWeather.com is calling for 1 to 3 inches in the northern half of the state and 3 to 6 inches in South Jersey.
Temperatures will be in the upper teens and near 20 degrees as the snow ends tonight, the weather service said. Wind chills could be in the single digits or near zero overnight ahead of what will remain a bitter cold weekend, though without the threat of additional snow.
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