Winter Weather — Western Essex, New Jersey

2022-02-13 · Western Essex, New Jersey

Event narrative

A trained spotter reported 2.7 inches of snow in West Caldwell.

Wider weather episode

Weak low pressure developed along a frontal wave along the southeast coastline and moved northeast offshore as 700 mb frontogenesis contributed to a light accumulating snowfall with mainly low advisory and sub advisory level snowfall across Northeastern New Jersey. Not all zones are entered as with a warm ground some zones had under 2.5 inches of accumulated snow.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 999853. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.