SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ–On Tuesday, December 16th, a storm system brought a wintry mix of rain and snow to the Central Jersey area creating a Winter Weather Advisory for the region. For a period of time in the early to mid-afternoon, there was a good deal of snowflakes flying around Northwestern Middlesex County as depicted in the latest GWC Time Lapse video.

According to the data tallied by the Greg’s Weather Center WX Station in South Plainfield, New Jersey. About 0.45 inches of precipitation fell over the area on both Tuesday and Wednesday before the storm finally began to clear out on Wednesday afternoon. So far for the month of December, there has been a total of 2.58 inches of rain including 2.46 that has fallen in just the last week alone for approximately 95.3 percent of the month’s precipitation. For the year, there has been 39.29 inches of rainfall in South Plainfield.

If you want to talk about extremes, all you have to do is look at the high and low temperatures for Tuesday. Just after midnight, the mercury had soared to 60.2 degrees. However, by nearly 11 PM Tuesday evening, it had plummeted to more than half that at 29.9 degrees for a mean temperature of 45.1 resulting in 20 heating degree day units. On Monday, the thermometer climbed to 65 degrees for a high after being as low as 22 degrees some 24 to 36 hours earlier. The average mean temperature for the month has been approximately 37.7 degrees with the lowest temperature occurring a little more than a week ago on December 8th (17 degrees).

This taste of winter may have been an appetizer. The reason I say this is because there is another storm brewing that could bring another round of wintry weather to the region. The National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Middlesex County, and a Winter Storm Watch for nearby Somerset County. The forecast calls for a mostly sunny day on Thursday, but in the evening, snow will arrive, and it will continue on Friday and Friday night with a 100 percent chance of the white stuff mixing with sleet. Locales in Somerset County can expect anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of snow as well as a quarter of an inch of ice.