{"id":3174,"date":"2015-01-27T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2015-01-27T01:16:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:16:50","slug":"snow-forecast-scaled-back-as-noreaster-tracks-90-miles-farther-east-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/01\/snow-forecast-scaled-back-as-noreaster-tracks-90-miles-farther-east-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Forecast Scaled Back As Nor’Easter Tracks 90 Miles Farther East Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forecasters are beginning to concede that the current nor\u2019easter could be a blizzard that wasn\u2019t.<\/em> The National Weather Service scaled back its forecast snow totals for Ocean County in an unusual early-morning update Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy deepest apologies to many key decision makers and so many members of the general public,\u201d said Gary Szatkowski, meteorologist in charge at the NWS\u2019s Mount Holly office, issuing a public apology over Twitter.<\/p>\n

The nor\u2019easter formed as forecasters predicted it would \u2013 only 90 miles farther east than expected, leading to a surprise among meteorologists who predicted as much as three feet of snow would fall along the Jersey Shore.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou made a lot of tough decisions expecting us to get it right, and we didn\u2019t,\u201d Szatkowski said.<\/p>\n

Brick Township \u2013 and the rest of eastern Ocean County \u2013 was now on track to receive between 10 and 14 inches of snow before the system completely moves out of the region by 3 p.m. Tuesday. The NWS\u2019s forecast calls for 4-8 inches of snow to fall overnight and potentially 3-5 more inches to fall during the day Tuesday. Winds will continue to gust as high as 43 m.p.h. Tuesday.<\/p>\n

So, why did the storm appear so much farther away from the Shore than expected? Meteorologists are pointing to what is known as an \u201cinverted trough\u201d that formed in Pennsylvania during the day Monday \u2013 essentially, an uplift of air \u2013 which kept the storm farther out to sea. The trough\u2019s development was not noted in previous forecasting models.<\/p>\n

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Forecasters are beginning to concede that the current nor\u2019easter could be a blizzard that wasn\u2019t. The National Weather Service scaled back its forecast snow totals for Ocean County in an unusual early-morning update Tuesday. \u201cMy deepest apologies to many key decision makers and so many members of the general public,\u201d said Gary Szatkowski, meteorologist in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[890,24,435],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-blizzard","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-noreaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-27-at-1.15.53-AM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-Pc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}