Welcome Spring

It’s the first day of Spring and for some parts of the area there was a surprise this morning…snow! You just gotta love March! The month came in like a lion and in the seasonal transition, winter just seems like it can’t let go. Last night temperatures were in the lower 40s and as a cold front moved through the region later in the morning temperatures dropped to 33 degrees. 32 degrees is not always necessary for the phenomenon of snow and the there have been cases in which it snowed with temperatures in the mid to upper thirties. The snow fell for a good portion of the morning we collected some precipitation from this event.

From the National Weather Service:

Snowfall Totals (March 20, 2009)

NEW JERSEY

…BURLINGTON COUNTY…

SOUTHAMPTON 0.6 820 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

MOUNT LAUREL 0.4 642 AM 3/20 ON SNOWBOARD

…CAMDEN COUNTY…

LINDENWOLD 0.2 830 AM 3/20 ON GRASS AND CARS

…MERCER COUNTY…

HOPEWELL 1.4 730 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

PENNINGTON 1.0 700 AM 3/20 COCORAHS – ON GRASS

EWING 0.8 1013 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

…MIDDLESEX COUNTY…

SOUTH BRUNSWICK 2.0 700 AM 3/20 COCORAHS – ON GRASS

EDISON 1.0 845 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

…MORRIS COUNTY…

LANDING 0.3 612 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

…SOMERSET COUNTY…

HILLSBOROUGH 0.7 700 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

PENNSYLVANIA

…BUCKS COUNTY…

NEWTOWN 0.3 700 AM 3/20 COCORAHS – ON GRASS

FURLONG 0.2 920 AM 3/20 ON GRASS

This is information taken from the weather station in Mt. Holly, NJ. In Moorestown the accumulation was 0.02 inches early today and currently the temperature in Moorestown, NJ is 42 degrees with overcast skies, which is also the high for today. It is below the average of 50 degrees for this time in March and can you believe but just this past year, a record was set today for the record high of 60 degrees. Now that’s Spring! We can expect a low of 27 with partly cloudy skies tonight, as the high which is now over the great lakes, moves into the region by Sunday. We can expect temperatures in the lower 50s for Saturday and near 59 degrees for Sunday as a cold front will move through the area Sunday night, leaving slightly below average temperatures towards the beginning of next week.

Welcome Spring I’m looking forward to some interesting stories.