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By Stephen Stirling/The Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger   on December 06, 2013 at 12:43 PM  
 
New Jersey’s first accumulating snow and ice of the season is possible this
weekend, as a pair of winter storms affect the Garden State tonight and Sunday.  

Today’s storm, which is already producing light rain across the state, is
only expected to have significant impacts in far northern and western New Jersey.  The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for Sussex County from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. Saturday morning, where rain is expected to changeover to snow, sleet or freezing rain tonight and potentially produce accumulations of one to two inches.

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By Seth Augenstein/The Star-Ledger
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MORRISTOWN — After a storm swept through the state Monday, knocking over trees and downing power lines, most customers’ power connections have been restored, the major electricity companies are reporting this morning.

About 500 customers remain without power in Morris County as of 9 a.m., according to JCP&L. But only scattered outages remain in the rest of the company’s 12 other counties – and PSE&G is reporting only scattered connections lost in its seven counties.

 However, Elmwood Park’s public schools are all closed today, because of power outages at the middle and high schools, the district said in a statement on its website.

 At one point on Monday evening, some 10,000 total outages were reported by the two power companies.  The storm brought 60 mph wind gusts and heavy rains in some parts of the Garden State. A tornado watch had been issued by the National Weather Service for parts of the state. Though no twisters were reported touching down, a funnel cloud was reported in the sky in the area of the Lakeview section of Paterson, said David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's office in Upton, N.Y. The funnel cloud was seen at 3:15 p.m. in the area of Trenton Avenue and Michigan Avenue.

 Most of the damages reported across the state, however, were from "straight-line wind damage" in the state, Stark added. In Bergenfield, a woman and her daughter were hospitalized after being hit by a falling tree limb.

By Justin Zaremba/NJ.com    
The Star-Ledger on September 13, 2013 at  7:04 AM, updated September 13, 2013 at  7:57 AM  
 
About 2,800 Jersey Central Power & Light customers in Morris County are in the dark Friday morning after a severe lightning storm featuring strong rain and heavy winds blew through the region Thursday evening, according on the utility's online outage map.

A Jersey Central Power and Light employees works in 2011.Jerry McCrea/The Star-Ledger As of 7 a.m., 2,817 customers were
without power, JCP&L reported. While most towns have fewer than five customers without power, Washington Township accounted for the lion's share with 953 customers without power, according to the map.

Jefferson has the second highest number of outages with 762 customers, according to the map. The number of customers without power nearly tripled from Thursday evening. 

"We are experiencing power outages due to severe weather," JCP&L said in a statement on its website Thursday. "Crews are assessing the damage and restoring service."

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The Farmers' Almanac is using words like "piercing cold," "bitterly cold" and "biting cold" to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are right, the first outdoor Super Bowl in years will be a messy "Storm Bowl."

The 197-year-old publication that hits newsstands Monday predicts a winter storm will hit the Northeast around the time the Super Bowl is played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It also predicts a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the country and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes and New England.

 "We're using a very strong four-letter word to describe this winter, which is C-O-L-D. It's going to be very cold," said Sandi Duncan, managing editor.

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Posted: 07/09/2013 12:05 pm  EDT  |  Updated: 07/09/2013 5:22 pm EDT 

From Climate Central's Andrew   Freedman:

 Hurricanes are Mother Nature’s largest and most destructive storms. Fed by warm ocean waters and moist atmospheric conditions, about 90 such  storms — also known as tropical cyclones — form worldwide each year. With the  population of coastal areas growing daily and sea level on the rise, how these  monster storms may change as the climate continues to warm is an  increasingly  urgent question facing climate scientists, insurance companies, and public  officials.

 A new study by Kerry Emanuel, a prominent hurricane researcher  at MIT, found that contrary to previous findings, tropical cyclones are likely  to become both stronger and more frequent in the years to come, especially in  the western North Pacific, where storms can devastate the heavily populated  coastlines of Asian nations. Emanuel's research showed the same holds
true for  the North Atlantic, where about 12 percent of the world's tropical cyclones spin  each year.

By Tom Haydon and Eugene Paik/Star-Ledger Staff

Thousands of homes and businesses in New Jersey are without power as heavy rain continues to fall over parts of the state this morning.

Karen Johnson, a spokeswoman for Public Service Electric & Gas, said restorations are underway for the 8,700 customers without power in its service territory.  Essex and Passaic counties have about 3,000 out, primarily in the West Orange area, she said. Bergen has about 1,400 outages around Maywood, and there are about 4,300 out in the Bridgewater area.  Jersey Central Power & Light "is assessing the damage and responding," particularly in Union County, where outages were most severe, utility spokesman Ron Morano said.

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By Stephen Stirling/The Star-Ledger
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It reads like a grocery list of severe weather threats. Strong tornadoes. Large hail. Damaging winds. Significant flooding.  

All are on the table for New Jersey Thursday in what is becoming an increasingly worrisome situation, according to weather forecasters.  

“This is one of those days that could end up being really memorable,” said Gary Szatkowski, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office. “This has the potential to be historic and we need to treat it that way.”
 
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A weakened Tropical Storm Andrea will dump one to two inches of rain on New Jersey today, prompting some flooding and making for treacherous road
conditions. Still south of New Jersey, but moving quickly, the storm is expected to bring several more inches later today, according to the National Weather Service.

 "It's basically on track, and we are expecting the heaviest rain to fall this
afternoon, from 1 p.m. on," meteorologist Greg Heavener said. "The heaviest is still to come."