Most of New Jersey and New York City will likely see mostly rain, changing to snow at times, with very low accumulations.
A large winter storm system is expected to bring a mix of rain and snow to the New Jersey region on Super Bowl Sunday, with the potential for some some areas to get 3 to 6 inches of snow, forecasters said on Friday afternoon.
Most of the heavier snow will likely be limited to high-elevation areas of the Garden State, such as Sussex, northern Passaic, northern Warren and eastern Bergen, according to forecasters from the National Weather Service.
Although the forecast could change as the storm gets closer, most areas of northern and central New Jersey -- aside from the high-elevation areas -- will likely see far more rain than snow because of warmer temperatures on Sunday.
Here is the National Weather Service's snow forecast for northeastern sections of New Jersey, along with New York City and Long Island, N.Y., from early Sunday morning through early Monday morning. A forecast map for the rest of New Jersey is currently not available. The New York regional office of the National Weather Service, which handles the northeastern region of New Jersey, is forecasting as much as 4 to 6 inches of snow in much of Passaic County and in western Bergen County from early Sunday morning through early Monday morning.
The weather service's New Jersey regional office is forecasting 3 to 6 inches of snow in much of Sussex County and northern Warren County, 1 to 3 inches of snow in Morris County and lower Warren County, and up to a half-inch of snow in Somerset, Middlesex and Mercer counties, said meteorologist Lance Franck.
Most of central and southern New Jersey can expect the storm to bring mostly rain, with a potential for a dusting of snow, Franck said.
As of now, it appears temperatures will remain near the freezing mark in northwestern sections of New Jersey, so the precipitation in those areas will predominantly be snow on Sunday, Franck said. In other parts of the state, temperatures are expected to rise above the freezing mark, bringing some snow early Sunday before it changes to rain and possibly back to snow again.
Before the storm system arrives, New Jersey will be dealing with a cold and blustery day on Friday, with temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s and winds gusting as high as 30 mph at times. The mercury will drop into the upper teens Friday night into Saturday morning, with mostly dry but cold conditions on Saturday afternoon.
Precipitation is expected to arrive in the hours after midnight Saturday night.
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