Huge temperature drop turned Saturday's beautiful weather into nasty wintry weather.
Mother Nature seemed to be a little confused on Saturday, bringing sunny skies and 70-degree warmth to New Jersey during the daytime, and a cold wintry mess at night and into Sunday morning as a strong cold front whipped through the region.
The end result was a sloppy mix of rain, sleet and snow -- some of which accumulated to more than half a foot in parts of Sussex County and a few inches across Morris County.
Strong winds could spark power outages
Most forecasters had predicted only a coating to 1 or 2 inches of snow in the hilly parts of the state and flurries elsewhere. However, temperatures on Saturday ended up cooling down faster than anticipated, just in time for the moisture that moved in, said Valerie Meola, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's regional office in Mount Holly.
"There was definitely a rapid cooling that occurred, and some squalls developed," Meola said, bringing high snowfall amounts to parts of the Garden State, primarily in high-elevation areas.
In some parts of New Jersey, Meola said, "it's like a winter wonderland right before Thanksgiving."
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It's also very windy, with gusts getting as strong as 45 to 50 mph Sunday afternoon. Forecasters say occasional snow showers could develop Sunday night and overnight in northern New Jersey as temperatures fall to the upper 20s to low 30s.
Snowfall totals
These are among the snowfall totals reported Sunday morning by the National Weather Service and the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, based at Rutgers University.
ATLANTIC COUNTY
Folsom: 0.12 inches
Estell Manor: 0.11 inches
Egg Harbor City: 0.11 inches
BERGEN COUNTY
Oakland: 0.60 inches
River Vale: 0.60 inches
Tenafly: 0.57 inches
BURLINGTON COUNTY
Moorestown: 0.17 inches
Medford: 0.11 inches
Mount Holly: Trace
CAPE MAY COUNTY
Sea Isle City: 0.14 inches
Upper Twp.: 0.12 inches
Middle Twp.: 0.10 inches
ESSEX COUNTY
Millburn: 0.55 inches
Cedar Grove: 0.50 inches
Maplewood: 0.49 inches
HUDSON COUNTY
Harrison: 0.42 inches
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HUNTERDON COUNTY
Glen Gardner: 3.2 inches
Bethlehem Twp.: 2.0 inches
Mountainville: 1.5 inches
Stockton: 1.3 inches
Lebanon: 1.2 inches
MERCER COUNTY
West Windsor: 0.35 inches
Ewing: 0.3 inches
Robbinsville: 0.25 inches
Princeton: 0.24 inches
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Woodbridge: 0.51 inches
Metuchen: 0.50 inches
Edison: 0.48 inches
New Brunswick: 0.41 inches
North Brunswick: 0.37 inches
East Brunswick: 0.32 inches
MORRIS COUNTY
Green Pond: 4.0 inches
Schooleys Mountain: 3.5 inches
Randolph: 3.0 inches
Washington Twp.: 2.7 inches
Succasunna: 2.0 inches
Mine Hill: 1.0 inches
PASSAIC COUNTY
West Milford: 4.5 inches
SOMERSET COUNTY
Green Brook: 0.6 inches
Franklin Twp.: 0.37 inches
Bernards Twp.: 0.35 inches
Hillsborough: 0.28 inches
SUSSEX COUNTY
Highland Lakes: 6.7 inches
High Point: 6.5 inches
Vernon: 6.0 inches
Hardyston: 4.7 inches
Glenwood: 3.0 inches
Montague: 3.0 inches
Highland Lakes: 2.0 inches
Sussex Borough: 2.0 inches
Wantage: 0.8 inches
UNION COUNTY
New Providence: 0.4 inches
Westfield: 0.1 inches
WARREN COUNTY
Allamuchy: 1.6 inches
Oxford 1.5 inches
Hackettstown: 0.8 inches
Greenwich: 0.2 inches
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