From the National Weather Service offices
Winter Storm Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
624 AM EST WED FEB 5 2014
...ANOTHER WINTER STORM WITH SNOW AND ICE WILL AFFECT MUCH OF THE AREA LATER TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...
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INCLUDING THE CITIES OF... NEWTON... WASHINGTON... MORRISTOWN... JIM THORPE... STROUDSBURG
624 AM EST WED FEB 5 2014
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...
* HAZARD TYPES...SNOW...SLEET AND SOME FREEZING RAIN.
* SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS...4 TO 9 INCHES. HIGHER AMOUNTS AROUND ONE FOOT ON THE POCONO PLATEAU.
* ICE ACCUMULATIONS...AROUND A TENTH OF AN INCH.
* TIMING...SNOW... WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN MIXED IN AT TIMES WILL CONTINUE TODAY. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE MORNING COMMUTE...WITH LESSER PRECIPITATION INTENSITY AS THE DAY CONTINUES. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD TAPER OFF THIS AFTERNOON.
* IMPACTS...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS DUE TO SNOW COVERED ROADS AND REDUCED VISIBILITY. THE HEAVY ACCUMULATION OF SNOW IN ADDITION TO SOME ICING COULD BRING DOWN SOME TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES...RESULTING IN SOME POWER OUTAGES. THE MORNING COMMUTE WILL BE GREATLY IMPACTED.
* WINDS...EAST 5 TO 10 MPH.
* TEMPERATURES...IN THE 20S.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW...
SLEET... AND ICE ARE EXPECTED. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY
HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED... ESPECIALLY ON ROADWAYS THAT MOVE THROUGH THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE POCONOS.
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