Storm description, surface observations, snowfall totals, and images courtesy of the National Climatic Data Center, the National Centers of Environmental Prediction, the Climate Prediction Center, the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, the Mount Holly National Weather Service Office, the Upton National Weather Service Office, Rutgers University, Plymouth State University, the University of Illinois, the American Meteorological Society, Weather Graphics Technologies, AccuWeather, and the Weather Channel.
Table of Contents
Storm Summary
Regional Surface Observations
National Weather Service Forecasts
Surface Maps
Satellite Imagery
National Surface Weather Maps - Pressure and Fronts Only
Continental Surface Weather Maps - Pressure and Fronts Only
Sea Level Pressure and 1000 to 500 Millibar Thickness Maps
850 Millibar Maps
700 Millibar Maps
500 Millibar Maps
300 Millibar Maps
200 Millibar Maps
National Radar Imagery
Regional Radar Imagery
Fort Dix Doppler Radar Imagery
Contoured Snowfall Totals from January 25, 2013
STORM DESCRIPTION
A rapidly moving wave of weak low pressure brought a period of light snow to most of New Jersey.
Synoptic Discussion
A storm system moved across the state late on the 23rd and early on the 24th, ushering in a cold Canadian high pressure system behind it. At the same time, a weak wave of low pressure was sliding its way down a stationary front hung up along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. By midday on the 24th, this low pressure was in northern Texas, and by midday on the 25th it had reached Alabama. Energy then jumped to a new low pressure which developed along the North Carolina coast late on the 25th. This low pressure headed east-northeast and was well off the coast by the early morning of the 26th.
Local Discussion
Light snow overspread the state from southwest to northeast during the afternoon hours on the 25th. The heaviest bands of snow fell over southern New Jersey late in the afternoon and early in the evening, with ligher snow falling further north. The snow ended from west to east during the evening of the 25th. Snow totals ranged from a coating to 2 inches from Mercer and Monmouth counties southward, with generally an inch or less falling from Hunterdon, Somerset and Middlsex counties northward.
New Jersey Snowfall Totals
Individual Snowfall Totals from January 25, 2013
Table of Contents
Storm Summary
Regional Surface Observations
National Weather Service Forecasts
Surface Maps
Satellite Imagery
National Surface Weather Maps - Pressure and Fronts Only
Continental Surface Weather Maps - Pressure and Fronts Only
Sea Level Pressure and 1000 to 500 Millibar Thickness Maps
850 Millibar Maps
700 Millibar Maps
500 Millibar Maps
300 Millibar Maps
200 Millibar Maps
National Radar Imagery
Regional Radar Imagery
Fort Dix Doppler Radar Imagery
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Snow and ice storm, December 29, 2012
Snow storm, January 25, 2013
Snow and ice storm, February 8-9, 2013
Snow storm, March 7-8, 2013
Snow storm, March 16, 2013
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