Winter Storm in Eastern Passaic, New Jersey

Winter Storm January 25, 2026 – January 26, 2026 · Eastern Passaic, New Jersey

What the National Weather Service wrote

Cocorahs observers reported 12.0 inches in Wayne and 11.0 inches in Hawthorne. The public reported 11.0 inches in West Paterson and 14.0 inches at 1 NE Wayne. Average snowfall across the zone was estimated to be over a foot.

The wider storm

A low pressure system emerged out of the Southern Plains and Texas and rode northeast through the Tennessee Valley and the Appalachians, before emerging just off the New Jersey coast. This produced a heavy snowfall across all of Northeastern New Jersey, with sleet, some of it heavy across a large portion of the region.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1303417. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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