Entries by John Homenuk

Moderate snowstorm likely on Monday

A low pressure system developing along a stalled frontal boundary is likely to bring precipitation to the entire area beginning early Monday morning, with cold air funneling in from the west/northwest behind the front and changing precipitation to snow throughout the area. Forecast models have trended much farther north and more expansive with the precipitation […]

Super Sunday warmup will be short lived

Given the nature and degree of the cold snaps so far this winter season, it seems like every warm up deserves a lot of attention. There have only been a few this year (most notably one in December and one in mid January) — and another is on the way this weekend. Conveniently timed during […]

Understanding the difference between potential and hype

I think I personally hit a bit of a breaking point today. Around 6:00am this morning, we received an inquiry regarding the potential winter weather events next week.  This is nothing terribly unusual — our email inbox is normally filled with these and we do our best to try and answer them and keep people […]

Coastal storm departs, cold air persists

The storm system which brought significant winter weather to the Gulf Coast and Southeast States over the past two days still found a way to scrape our area with light snow from Tuesday Night into Wednesday, with most areas east of the city receiving 1-3″ of fresh powdery snow. Those in Southeast New Jersey, especially […]