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 February 12-13, 2008
STORM DESCRIPTION
A winter storm brought snow, sleet and freezing rain to New Jersey on the afternoon and evening of February 12th before changing to rain by dawn on February 13th.
Synoptic Discussion
A strong cold front pushed across the state on Sunday February 10th, ushering in an arctic air mass. This front stalled near the Gulf of Mexico and Texas. A low pressure developed along the front in Texas by late February 11th, and moved northeastward into the Ohio Valley on the 12th. By later on February 13th, the low had moved into Atlantic Canada.
Local Discussion
As the low moved along a track northwest of New Jersey, it caused what was once a cold front to move back north as a warm front later on February 12th and early on February 13th. This caused snow to break out across central and northern New Jersey during the afternoon of the 12th. Precipitation moved into southern New Jersey during the late afternoon and evening of the 12th in the form of freezing rain, sleet and plain rain, while the snow further north also changed to sleet and freezing rain. Temperatures warmed enough for rain to be the predominate precipitation type state-wide by dawn on February 13th. Snowfall accumulations were less than 1 inch across the southern half of New Jersey, ranged from 1 to 3 inches across northern Mercer, northern Monmouth, Middlesex, Somerset, Union, Essex, Hudson and Hunterdon counties, and ranged from 2 to 4 inches across Warren, Morris, Passaic, Bergen, and Sussex counties.
New Jersey Snowfall Totals
Individual Snowfall Totals from February 12-13, 2008
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
Snow storm, January 17-18, 2008
Snow and ice storm, February 12-13, 2008
Snow and ice storm, February 22, 2008
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