WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
527 AM EST MON JAN 20 2014
…WINTER STORM BECOMING MORE LIKELY TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…
…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT.
* LOCATIONS…EASTERN PASSAIC AND WESTERN BERGEN COUNTIES.
* HAZARD TYPES…SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS…SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 4 TO 7 INCHES.
* WINDS…NORTH 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES…IN THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S DURING THE DAY…AND
SINGLE DIGITS TO TEENS AT NIGHT.
* VISIBILITIES…ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES.
* TIMING…SNOWFALL WILL BEGIN LATE TUESDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY NIGHT WITH HEAVIEST SNOWFALL EXPECTED TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
* IMPACTS…FALLING BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CA– USE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL AND WALKING CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA… POSSIBLY IMPACTING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING COMMUTE. EXTREME COLD AND LOW WIND CHILLS COULD CA– USE FROST BITE. DRESS APPROPRIATELY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW…SLEET…OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECAS
No matter for this “weather watch” …
I’ll still be hibernating and waiting for the first signs Spring… and baseball season opener.
How many days till pitchers and catchers report?
Let’s hope all of the Christmas trees will have been picked up by then…..
Ha Ha. Good one.
They still haven’t picked up all of the leaves from last year!
well what do think, all depts are under staff. this is old news. it will get worse this year, why well because more workers are retiring and they are not replacing them. in 2016 a big number of police are going. do you think they would replace all of them. no.