Advisories Posted

Mornin'!  It's 45° in Wildwood NJ.  It's raining hard.  It's thundering and lightning.  Even though we're cloud covered, the sky looks red.  We all know what "red sky in the morning" means. The heavens are bowling big time this early morn. There's stiff breezes out of the SE at 15-20mph but that's nothing compared to what's coming in the line of Winds.  We've got some weather happening at the moment.  First off...advisories posted. Winter Weather Advisory,  Hazardous Weather Advisory, Coastal Flood Advisory, Wind Advisory are all posted this morning.  I realize we're in the midst of another major storm coming up the eastern seaboard which has significant amounts of snow being dumped West and North of us but somehow the immediate coastline doesn't look like we'll have any snow accumulation from this bad boy like everyone else. Remains to be seen though. At the moment our island weather is going through a transition (wind shift, clouds colliding, temperature drop etc) causing these thunderstorms and rains and temperature drop as I type.  We're expected to have heavy rains throughout the day into the early afternoon with sustained winds out of the N-NW at 25-40 +gusting.  By this afternoon we should see the rains begin to taper off as temps drop to the low 30s in the early evening.  With the temps down and clouds above we could see a dusting to 1" of snow later as the storm wraps up due to the cold snap and frigid temps.  Tonight... clouds begin to head away from the coast but those major, annoying, gusty winds (NW 29-34mph) aren't going anywhere.  With all that said...tomorrow's Full Moon isn't helping our island with today's heavy rains as coastal flooding and high tide levels are being enhanced by the man in the moon.  Get the Wellies out!  Keep telling yourself that there's no global warming.
High tide:6:22a.m and 6:54p.m.
Low tide:12:36p.m.
Ocean temp:41°
Sunset:5:32p.m.