New Jersey awakened Saturday morning to double-digit snowfall alongside the coast however New Jersey 101.5 Meteorologist Dan Zarrow mentioned at 9 a.m that we had “turned the nook,” with snowfall anticipated to taper off by way of the afternoon.
Whereas the specter of coastal flooding subsided Saturday morning, further mild snowfall and drifting snow from the wind may proceed to be an issue, Zarrow mentioned.
“It is a statewide occasion however the shore is getting clobbered probably the most,” Gov. Phil Murphy mentioned Saturday morning throughout The Large Joe Henry Present on New Jersey 101.5.
Murphy on Friday declared a state of emergency and urged residents to hunker down on Saturday and keep off the roads. He informed Large Joe that most individuals heeded that suggestion.
Murphy mentioned greater than 3,000 items of street gear have been deployed throughout the state however the drifting snow would impede the progress of snow clearing into the afternoon.
See beneath for the snowfall totals to date on Saturday morning.
The blizzard circumstances introduced below-freezing winds however the state’s utility corporations have been solely reporting a smattering of energy outages Saturday morning: JCP&L had about 600 clients with out energy, Atlantic Metropolis Electrical one other 266, and PSE&G only a half dozen earlier than 9:30 a.m.
The roads, nevertheless, have been a special matter with slow-moving visitors and business car restrictions on the state’s interstate highways. Backyard State Parkway remained snow-covered between the New Jersey Turnpike and the Atlantic Metropolis Expressway.
The area’s airports canceled a whole lot of flights Saturday morning. (Newark EWR info | Philadelphia PHL info | JFK info | LaGuardia info | Atlantic City info)
NJ Transit additionally suspended its bus companies Saturday morning. Service was anticipated to renew “later within the day as quickly as it’s secure to take action.” Rail service continued with weekend schedules.
The storm was anticipated to dump snow from Virginia to Maine, with elements of Massachusetts anticipating as a lot as 30 inches.
New Jersey snowfall totals
Under are the numbers reported to the Nationwide Climate Service in Mount Holly and Manhattan.
Winter Climate
Atlantic County — as of 7-8 a.m.
Absecon — 13.5 inches
Egg Harbor Township — 12.5 inches
Mays Touchdown — 12.5 inches
Ventnor Metropolis — 10 inches
Hammonton — 9 inches
Buena 6 — inches
Bergen County — as of seven a.m.
Ridgewood — 3.2 inches
Burlington County — as of 7-8:30 a.m.
Southampton — 8 inches
Mount Holly — 7.5 inches
Delran — 7 inches
Lumberton — 6 inches
Burlington Township — 6 inches
Columbus — 5.8 inches
Winter Climate Massachusetts
Camden County — as of seven:45-8:35 a.m.
Haddon — 6.6 inches
Laurel Springs — 5.4 inches
Pennsauken — 3.5 inches
Cape Could County — as of 7-8:20 a.m.
Avalon — 15 inches
Sea Isle Metropolis — 14 inches
Decrease Township — 13 inches
Erma — 11 inches
Cape Could Court docket Home — 11 inches
Ocean Metropolis — 10 inches
Cumberland County — as of 8:15 a.m.
Laurel Lake — 10.7 inches
Millville — 9 inches
Bridgeton — 5 inches
Essex County — as of seven a.m.
Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport — 4.5 inches
Gloucester County — as of 6:15-8 a.m.
Williamstown — 8 inches
Sewell — 5.5 inches
Pitman — 5.3 inches
Monroe — 5 inches
Greenwich — 4.6 inches
Hudson County — as of 6:35 a.m.
East Newark — 4 inches
Hunterdon County — as of 5:30-8:36 a.m.
Whitehouse Station — 3.5 inches
Readington — 2.9 inches
Flemington — 2.9 inches
Mercer County — as of 7-8 a.m.
Ewing — 5.5 inches
Hightstown — 5.4 inches
Hamilton Sq. — 3.4 inches
Middlesex County — as of 6:34 a.m.
Spotswood — 4.8 inches
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Monmouth County — as of 6:40-8:15 a.m.
Manasquan — 14.2 inches
Colts Neck — 11.6 inches
Asbury Park — 11 inches
Neptune Metropolis — 9.5 inches
Freehold — 7 inches
Morris County — as of 7-8:05 a.m.
Randolph 3.8 inches
Florham Park 3.5 inches
Butler 3 inches
Boonton 2 inches
Rockaway 2 inches
Signal on I-195 warning about snow
Ocean County — as of seven:30-8:30 a.m.
Forked River — 15.5 inches
Brick — 13.2 inches
Toms River — 13 inches
Lakehurst — 11.5 inches
Barnegat — 9.8 inches
Somerset County — as of 7-8 a.m.
Bridgewater — 3 inches
Raritan — 3 inches
Branchburg — 2.5 inches
Lifted automobile wipers on the snow lined windshield.
Sussex County — as of seven:20-8 a.m.
Sparta — 2.8 inches
Byram — 2.5 inches
Union County — as of seven:30 a.m.
Cranford — 3.5 inches
Warren County — as of 7-8:23 a.m.
Hackettstown — 3 inches
Stewartsville — 3 inches
Belvidere — 2 inches
Your photographs: First blizzard of 2022 in New Jersey
Photographs from throughout New Jersey on Saturday morning. Alongside the coast, this was New Jersey’s first blizzard of 2022.
Sergio Bichao is the digital managing editor of New Jersey 101.5. Ship him information ideas: Name 609-775-9793 or electronic mail sergio.bichao@townsquaremedia.com.
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