Forecasters say a low-pressure system will likely form in the Ohio Valley Wednesday and strengthen off the Mid-Atlantic coast Friday. The track is still uncertain, and it will decide whether New Jersey gets mostly cold rain and gusty winds at the Shore or its first accumulating snow of the season.
New Jersey is heading toward a stormy, much colder end of the week. The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly said Saturday night that a coastal system is looking more likely to reach the region late in the week and into early next weekend. Forecasters added that how much snow falls, if any, is still highly uncertain.
According to the NWS Weather Prediction Center, a wave of low pressure is expected to develop across the Ohio Valley late Wednesday, Nov. 11. It should then move east and strengthen off the Mid-Atlantic coast on Friday, Nov. 13. As it intensifies, precipitation will spread across the region: mostly rain, with snow possible at higher elevations. Temperatures well below normal will arrive with the storm Friday and hang on through the weekend.
Snow Odds Favor the Interior, Not the Shore
The Weather Prediction Center’s early outlook gives the best odds of at least an inch of snow, between Thursday evening and Saturday evening, to the interior Northeast and higher terrain in Pennsylvania, New York and New England. Most of New Jersey sits at the low end of that range, especially along the coast, where warmer air off the ocean usually keeps early-season storms wet instead of white…