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BY STEVEN DiMARTINO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

As a cold front exits off the New Jersey coast this morning, another storm begins to organize over the northern Plains. This developing low pressure system will bring the first accumulating snowfall to the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas for the new year.

High pressure over the Great Lakes will shift towards the New England coast today with clearing skies. As cold air builds in, temperatures will stall and hold in the lower to mid 30's over the interior and mid to upper 30's along the coast. Clouds will increase by this evening as winds shift to the east and southeast, transporting moisture into the fresh new cold air mass over the region.

Late tonight through tomorrow morning, the low pressure system over the Northern Plains will move through the Tennessee River Valley and off the New Jersey coast. Warm air will invade from the south and southeast ahead of this low pressure system leading to snow breaking out by late tonight for the entire northern Mid Atlantic.

However, as the warm air invades the snow will mix with and change over to rain along the coast with an inch or less along the southern New Jersey coast, one to three inches for the Philadelphia metropolitan area through southern Connecticut, and three to six inches with locally higher amounts up to eight inches for the northwestern territories for northeastern Pennsylvania, northwestern New Jersey, the Hudson River Valley, and central/northern Connecticut.

More details on this snowfall can be found with the Snow Fall Map.

The storm will exit quickly with snow ending by tomorrow afternoon. High pressure will build into the region tomorrow evening and remain in control through Monday with scattered cloud cover.

A series of weak cold fronts will move through the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas Tuesday through Thursday. Temperatures will moderate through the period with lows in the mid 20's to mid 30's and upper 30's to mid 40's for highs.