It won't feel like early January outside in New Jersey on New Year's Day.
Well, the weather outside is not so frightful on this New Year's Day morning.
Skies are mostly clear, the sun will be coming out and temperatures are expected to climb into the mid-40s in northern New Jersey, the upper 40s in central New Jersey and will make a run for 50 degrees in South Jersey.
If those temperatures hold up, they'll be 6 to 8 degrees warmer than usual for Jan. 1. The normal high is 38 degrees in Morristown, 40 in Trenton and 42 in Atlantic City.
New Jerseyans won't have too much time to enjoy the unseasonably warm 2017 debut, because clouds and cooler temperatures will be arriving Sunday night, paving the way for a batch of freezing rain during the late-night hours and overnight into Monday morning, according to forecasters.
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"Though any glaze is expected to be light, it could be enough to cause hazardous travel conditions," the National Weather Service noted in a hazardous weather outlook issued for the northern half of the state, as well as parts of Atlantic, Burlington, Cumberland, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties. "Light freezing rain could linger into Monday morning, and into Monday afternoon for the higher terrain in the southern Poconos and northwest New Jersey."
Low temperatures on Sunday night will range from 27 degrees in North Jersey to right around the freezing mark in Central Jersey and South Jersey -- 31 to 32 degrees.
With temperatures warming up to the upper 40s to around 50 on Monday, rain is likely across most of the state, forecasters said. Warm and wet weather will continue on Tuesday, with rain getting heavy at times, and colder weather is expected to return later this week.
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