There's something to look forward to this weekend.
Meteorologists expected Wednesday's snowstorm to take a jog to the north, bringing frozen precipitation to the Lehigh Valley and northwest New Jersey.
But by the time the storm decided to move up the coast, it was already too far east to have an impact on this region, WeatherWorks meteorologist Rob Reale explained this morning. This time, the original forecast that called for very little snow was better than the revised plan that saw 2 to 4 inches, he said.
"It tracked south and east," he said of the storm which brought heavy snow to Maryland.
It was snowing at the New Jersey shore this morning, Reale said, but "it was way too warm" and the storm turned "way too late" for the spritzing rain to become anything more than a reason to use windshield wipers in this area.
"I think people can probably plan for spring," he said from the weather service's Hackettstown headquarters. "It gets very nice this weekend. ... There's finally something people can look forward to."
Sunny weather takes over by Saturday, with a high of 50, followed by 58 on Sunday and 59 on Monday, according to AccuWeather.
Reale said we could get rain by midweek and it could be colder over St. Patrick's Day weekend, but the variety is certainly not unusual for this time of year.