{"id":1410,"date":"2017-12-08T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2017-12-08T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T17:44:18","slug":"winter-storm-watch-issued-snow-forecast-increased-to-4-6-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/12\/winter-storm-watch-issued-snow-forecast-increased-to-4-6-inches\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Storm Watch Issued; Snow Forecast Increased to 4-6 Inches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11943\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-12.39.57-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11943\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943\" src=\"http:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-12.39.57-PM.png\" alt=\"Forecast snow totals for New Jersey in the Dec. 8, 2017 storm. (Credit: NWS)\" width=\"630\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forecast snow totals for New Jersey in the Dec. 8, 2017 storm. (Credit: NWS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Ocean County \u2013 as well as the remainder of South Jersey \u2013 with a storm forecast to drop 4-6 inches of snow on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The snow will begin in the overnight hours and last through the day Saturday. Overnight, about one inch of snow will fall, according to forecasters, followed by another 2-3 inches on Saturday during the day, and potentially one more Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the upgrade in the snow totals is the fact that the storm will move closer to the coast, according to forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean County officials said they were ready,\u00a0with the road and bridge departments mobilizing a fleet of more than 200 trucks and other vehicles and about 175 employees to salt and clear roads when the weather turns bad.<\/p>\n<p>Brick officials begin plowing only after four inches of snow have fallen to ensure roads and plow equipment aren&#8217;t damaged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/12\/winter-storm-watch-issued-snow-forecast-increased-to-4-6-inches\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Ocean County \u2013 as well as the remainder of South Jersey \u2013 with a storm forecast to drop 4-6 inches of snow on Saturday. The snow will begin in the overnight hours and last through the day Saturday. Overnight, about one inch of snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-weather","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-08-at-12.39.57-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}