A winter storm is supposed to hit the region on Friday, and it’s supposed to be a “big one.”
This one is supposed to be the big one.
And it could bring up to six inches of snow to New Jersey and Pennsylvania beginning Friday afternoon.
“It doesn’t mean it’s set into stone,” Bernie Rayno of AccuWeather said in a video on the weather service’s site (see below).
But the ingredients are there, he said.
The storm should hit from the west beginning on Friday, hitting the eastern Pennsylvania first and then laying a blanket across N.J. by Saturday, forecasters say.
Rayno said “energy” in the Pacific could derail it, but all things equal, this could be the first real storm of the winter.
“There are ways out of this,” he said. “But that is the potential if everything works right.”
“It would be a big one,” he said.
The National Weather Service has also issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for all New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
Here is the NWS forecast for the week, followed by AccuWeather’s video:
M.L.King Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 28. Breezy, with a west wind around 22 mph, with gusts as high as 37 mph.
MLK Day night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 15. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 29. Wind chill values as low as zero. Blustery, with a west wind 20 to 24 mph.
Tuesday night: Mostly clear, with a low around 20. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 21 mph.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 35. West wind 11 to 14 mph.
Wednesday night: A chance of snow showers after 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 36.
Thursday night: Mostly clear, with a low around 23.FridayA chance of snow after 8am. Partly sunny, with a high near 34. Chance of precipitation is 40 percent.
Friday night: Snow likely, mainly after 8pm. Cloudy, with a low around 28. Blustery. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
Saturday: Snow likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
Saturday night: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. Blustery. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent.
Sunday: A chance of snow. Partly sunny, with a high near 37. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.
