Snow Winding Down Across New Jersey

The latest Doppler radar indicates that heavy snow bands continue over eastern Long Island as a 2:45 AM. The precipitation is ending over western NJ with only light snow now falling over most of NJ. The watches and warnings are ending earlier as the precipitation moves away faster than expected.

The main reason the snow was not has heavy as expected in the NYC area was that the heaviest of precipitation remained to the south and east and the storm was not a slow mover. I mentioned this on Friday when the models were closing off the steering upper-air circulation but it continued to move eastward at a good pace. It turned out that it moved even faster than expected thereby reducing the accumulations. But still this was a major storm with heavy snowfall amounts in parts of the area.

George Wright is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President of Wright Weather Consulting, Inc. Our web site is WrightWeather.com.