Central Jersey Not Only Looking At Another Winter Storm On Wednesday, But Possibly On Saturday As Well
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ–Over the past couple days, GMC Hoops has been tracking the weather since there have been reports on the internet and television about another major winter storm affecting our area by the middle of this week. Not only could we have a storm on or about Wednesday, but another one could affect Central Jersey this coming weekend as well.
We’ve been taking a look at the Area Forecast Discussion provided by the National Weather Service Office out of Mount Holly, New Jersey over the past two days. Both are indicating that a significant storm will move eastward through the middle of the country into the Ohio Valley, and is likely to bring snow and ice to the Northeast with the snowfall staying to the north in Upstate New York, interior Pennsylvania, and New England. Philadelphia, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York City area are likely to receive a significant amount of ice since the models are indicating a more inland track by this storm, which will pull in warm air ahead of it.
There still could be some accumulating snow on Tuesday night, especially for the Northern portion of New Jersey. However, as we saw with this past storm, a lot can change before the storm finally arrives and impacts the area. In addition to the information on this upcoming mid-week storm, the Weather Channel indicated in its long range discussion, that another storm may form off the Southeast coast late Thursday into Friday, and bring more snow to our neck of the woods on Saturday. So far this season, we have had six storms that have affected the GMC boys basketball schedule in some shape or form including wiping out the entire schedule on Wednesday and Thursday of this past week.
J.F. Kennedy has been particularly hit hard as it just played its tenth game of the season on Saturday. Other teams in the conference such as St. Joseph’s, Perth Amboy, East Brunswick, and Woodbridge have played between 15 and 18 games. With the GMCT seeding meeting less than two weeks away, many teams are going to have to scramble to get as much of their division schedules in as possible. The primary cause of this usually large amount of snowfall and wintry weather has been a blocking high pressure ridge near Greenland, which has caused the jet stream to stay in a persistent pattern that is allowing storms to move over the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeastern United States.