Mornin'! It's 36° in Wildwood NJ. It feels like 28° with those W-NW winds at 10-20mph. We missed the storm yesterday they were forecasting. Wildwood just had a rain event last night and overnight. No snow coating. No icy mix. No sleet or ice covering the island. Lady luck was certainly with us for this one. Hopefully, she'll stay with us for not just some of the upcoming storms this week that the weather-folk keep mentioning but also for the Philadelphia Eagles (my hometown team) who compete against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Superbowl tonight.
For today... decreasing cloudiness but windy with peeks of sunshine by afternoon, temps in the low-40s and winds out of the NW at 20-30mph +gusting. Tonight... cloudy skies, temps around 30° and N-NW winds at 5-10mph. Tomorrow... mostly sunny with a few passing clouds, temps around 40° and NW winds at 10-20mph. Tomorrow night... clear, temps in the low-30s with North winds at 5-10mph. Tuesday... another potential winter storm on our horizon. Tuesday starts out with cloudy skies, temps in the mid-30s and possible snowfall beginning in the afternoon. They're saying around an inch of the white stuff before darkness falls. Winds will be out of the E-SE at 5-10mph. Tuesday night... snow likely to continue into the overnight, temps in the low-30s and E-NE winds at 10-20mph. Everywhere I check says 6-8" of snow during the night Tuesday and on the ground by daybreak on Wednesday. Wednesday... snow showers in the morning turning to an afternoon of rain as the meltdown beings with temps around 40° and NE winds at 15-25mph. Wednesday night... periods of rain continue, temps in the upper 30s and East winds at 10-20mph. I'm a little bit concerned on this one as the Full "Snow" Moon is also on Wednesday and with 8" of snow possible accumulating on the ground along with a rainy day Wednesday and then that moon pulling on the high tide waters intensely... I keep having visions of that winter storm "Jonas" from January 2016. We received almost 2' of snow with a Full Moon happening as well as rain after that dumping of snow. We had serious flooding with snow and icebergs floating in 2' of water on the island thanks to that storm and moon cycle. Jonas ranked as high as some of the biggest winter storms on record. It broke the record set by Hurricane Sandy. I never saw anything like it and hope I never will. But, I've got my eye on this mid-week storm ahead that's for sure. More importantly I got my eye on the Superbowl later. Go Birds!
High Tide: 5:36PM
Low Tide: 11:41AM
Ocean Temp: 40°
Sunrise: 6:57AM
Sunset: 5:30PM