Storm description, surface observations, snowfall totals, and images courtesy of the National Climatic Data Center, the National Centers of Environmental Prediction, the Climate Prediction Center, the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, the Mount Holly National Weather Service Office, the Upton National Weather Service Office, Rutgers University, Plymouth State University, the University of Illinois, the American Meteorological Society, Weather Graphics Technologies, AccuWeather, and the Weather Channel.

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Contoured Snowfall Totals from December 23-24, 1998

STORM DESCRIPTION A weak frontal wave brought a white Christmas to southern and central New Jersey. Synoptic Discussion A series of weak low pressures moved slowly northeast along a slow moving cold front in the western Atlantic Ocean.  One of these, passing closest to New Jersey early on the 24th, brought a large-enough band of precipitation to affect southern and central New Jersey. Local Discusion This weak storm brought central and southern New Jersey its first wintry precipitation of the season.  Precipitation fell mainly as snow, except along coastal sections of Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties, where precipitation mixed with or changed completely over to sleet.  The snow started around 6 pm EST on the 23rd and changed over to sleet across far southeast New Jersey during the evening.  The heaviest precipitation occured through the evening until around midnight.  Light snow lingered through the early morning of the 24th, except in far southeastern New Jersey where a mixture of freezing drizzle and light sleet fell.  The heaviest snowfall accumulations occured just to the north of the transition zone to sleet across Salem, southern Gloucester, southern Camden, western Atlantic, southern Burlington, and central Ocean counties, where accumulations averaged around 4 inches.  Elsewhere accumulations where mainly 2 to 3 inches, except north of Somerset County where accumulations were an inch or less.

New Jersey Snowfall Totals

Individual Snowfall Totals from December 23-24, 1998

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