A combination of rain, light snow and sleet will make for a somewhat messy Monday afternoon and evening across much of New Jersey that could cause slippery conditions on roads.
While South Jersey will likely see just rain, the rest of the state will could see different forms of generally light precipitation at different times, forecasters say.
“The good news with the system is that even though the precipitation types will be tricky today the overall totals will be light,” the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office said in its Monday morning forecast discussion.
A winter weather advisory in effect for Sussex and Warren counties runs from 11 a.m. until midnight with the weather service calling for up to an inch of snow and a light glaze of ice. Mixed precipitation will also fall at times.
Meanwhile, a winter weather advisory for western Passaic County takes effect at 4 p.m. and lasts until 7 a.m. Tuesday. Forecasters say to expect mixed precipitation changing to light freezing rain there. Light icing is also likely.
Other north and Central Jersey counties in the New York City area should anticipate light snow or sleet by mid to later afternoon before a changeover to rain, according to the National Weather Service. Plain rain is expected in South Jersey before precipitation winds down everywhere after midnight.
There’s also the possibility of dense fog overnight, the weather service said.
AccuWeather.com says the southern two-thirds of the state will see only rain Monday with light snow, rain and light ice expected in North Jersey.
Highs will be in the low 30s in northwestern New Jersey and the upper 30s to low 40s in the rest of the state with light winds everywhere.
The rest of the final week of 2021 is shaping up to be quite mild for late December with highs of about 50 each day.
Tuesday and Thursday should be mostly cloudy but dry. Rain is likely on Tuesday night and into Wednesday. The early call for New Year’s Eve on Friday is for sunny skies. Overnight temps will drop mainly into the mid to upper 30s.
Temps in late December normally range from the mid 20s to the low 40s.
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