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Time for shorts? Here’s how warm it will get this week in North Jersey
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How Great Falls in Paterson NJ look under subfreezing temperatures
After two days of subfreezing temperatures, the Great Falls in Paterson is shown on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.
It’s not exactly time to get your shorts and T-shirts out, but after a weeklong deep freeze in North Jersey, the temperatures will rise Sunday to about 40 degrees and will get into the mid-40s by Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
“Everyone’s thermometers are not broken today — it’s actually in the 30s outside,” Bill Goodman, a meteorologist with the service’s Upton, New York office said Sunday morning. “There’s a weak frontal boundary moving through. It’s a welcome change from some of these recent mornings we’ve had in the single digits and teens.”
Sunday night, the temperature will dip back into the 20s, but the highs will reach back up near 40 both Monday and Tuesday.
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Sometime Tuesday afternoon there may be some passing flurries, but no significant snow accumulation, Goodman said.
Then Wednesday there is a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. The temperature turns colder again on Thursday, although nothing like the frigid temperatures of the past week, with highs in the low to mid-30s.
Last week, a polar vortex brought the coldest temperatures of the year to the area, with wind chills near zero. Streets and sidewalks became slick with ice as snow melted and then froze. Even the Great Falls in Paterson froze over.
By Friday, the high is expected to be between 35 and 40 degrees, with a chance of rain and snow showers in the evening. It should warm up further next weekend, Goodman said, with highs getting back into the 40s.
“It’s still a little bit unsettled, but temperatures are moving into the 40s,” he said. “I think Wednesday we’ll put a real dent into whatever snow is left on the ground.”
New Jersey
10 hospitalized, including some students, after crash involving school bus in New Jersey
MOORESTOWN, N.J. (WPVI) — Ten people, including several students, were hospitalized Tuesday after a school bus crash in Burlington County, New Jersey.
The collision happened around 3 p.m. at Borton Landing and Hartford roads in Moorestown.
Township officials said in a Facebook post that a car and school bus collided at the intersection, injuring six students, the bus driver and three occupants of the passenger vehicle. All injuries appear to be minor, officials said.
“We have been made aware of a bus accident on one of our routes. There are no significant injuries for our students,” Moorestown Township Public Schools said in a statement.
The remaining students on the bus were taken to a nearby school, where they were picked up by family members.
School counselors will be available this week to provide additional support to students.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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Wrong-way driver charged in I-80 crash that injured N.J. State Police trooper
An alleged drunk, wrong-way driver was arrested following a crash on Interstate 80 in Warren County, officials said.
Robert Felegi was driving a pickup truck west in the eastbound lanes in Knowlton when he crashed head-on into a New Jersey State Trooper’s vehicle near milepost 1.4 around midnight Tuesday, State Police said.
The trooper had emergency lights and sirens activated while trying to alert motorists of a hazard ahead, authorities said.
The trooper suffered minor injuries, while Felegi was not hurt.
Felegi, 67, of Middleport, Pennsylvania, was charged with assault by auto and driving under the influence.
He was brought to the Warren County jail ahead of a detention hearing. An attorney for Felegi is not listed in court records.
investigation, and no additional information is available.
New Jersey
NJ casino workers continue push to end smoking loophole
TRENTON, N.J. (WPVI) — New Jersey casino workers, who are pushing to permanently ban smoking in their workplaces, held a rally in Trenton on Monday.
A hearing was held to discuss a lawsuit that aims to close the smoking loophole in the Garden State.
For years, casino workers have been pursuing protections against secondhand smoke in their workplaces.
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New Jersey’s Smoke-Free Air Act largely bans indoor smoking, but casinos have a long-standing exemption.
The lawsuit filed last April by the United Auto Workers, which represents dealers at the Bally’s, Caesars and Tropicana casinos.
In August 2024, a judge ruled in favor of the casinos to allow smoking to continue.
“Casino workers are expected to clock in to work every day despite inevitably facing a toxic environment that could cause countless health issues, including cancer, heart disease, and asthma,” said Nancy Erika Smith, the lawyer representing Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects (CEASE) and the UAW on Monday.
“We’re asking the court to find the exemption in New Jersey’s Smoke-Free Air Act unconstitutional and void it immediately. We hope this case will serve as a precedent for casinos across the country to close their smoking loopholes and stop poisoning their workers,” added Smith.
The casinos have warned that thousands of jobs and millions in gambling revenue and taxes could be lost if smoking was banned.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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