New Jersey
When will snow, sleet, ice storm end for N.J.? Latest forecast for messy morning commute.
A major winter storm that has already dumped a foot of heavy snow in some parts of New Jersey is expected to continue overnight, creating significant travel hazards for the Monday morning commute.
Winter storm warnings remain in effect until 1 p.m. Monday for nearly all New Jersey counties. The warning was canceled for Cape May County on Sunday evening after temperatures rose enough for a transition to rain.
“Wintry precipitation in its current form will continue through into the evening, then begin to wind down and end by around midnight or so,” the National Weather Service said. “Some guidance has hinted at some light snow occurring again Sunday night into early Monday morning before ending.”
Statewide temperatures will be well below freezing overnight, and any wet roads have high chance of refreezing, the weather service said.
“Monday morning will be very cold, in the low teens to mid 20s across the region,” the weather service said. “Roads and sidewalks will remain frozen or refreeze tonight, resulting in a hard slush or black ice.”
Hundreds of school districts throughout the state announced closures on Monday to dig out from the storm.
A state of emergency remains in effect for all 21 counties.
Ridgefield in Bergen County and Wayne in Passaic County both had reports of 12 inches of snow as of 5 p.m., according to the weather service.
A layer of ice between 0.10 to 0.25 inch remains a concern across a wider area along the I-95 corridor and areas just south and east.
Arctic air will remain in place with temperatures below freezing through next weekend with multiple cold fronts.
High temperatures will largely remain in the teens and 20s throughout the week, with low temperatures in the single digits to several degrees below zero.
Wind gusts are expected to reach 30 to 35 mph at times throughout the week, with wind chills ranging from the single digits to teens during the day and zero to minus 10 degrees at night in most areas.
With such a prolonged period of below-freezing temperatures, the new snow is not expected to melt much.
Aside from a slight chance of snow Thursday, dry weather is expected through the extended forecast period.
Current weather radar
“Dangerous heat is expected to continue across much of our region through today, with several record highs likely to be challenged again. High temperatures are forecast to peak into the low to mid 90s across most of the area,” the National Weather Service said Friday.
A Heat Advisory is in effect until 8 p.m. across the state except for Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem counties.
PHILADELPHIA – Philip McPherson II, a 37-year-old from Riverside, New Jersey, was sentenced Thursday, June 11, to 78 months in prison for his role in a 2022 plane crash in Lehigh County that killed a student pilot, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Sentencing and charges for fatal Lehigh Valley crash
What we know:
United States District Judge John M. Gallagher sentenced McPherson to 78 months in prison, three years of supervised release, a $5,000 fine, a $4,300 special assessment, and $19,530 in restitution. Judge Gallagher also barred McPherson from working in the aviation industry.
McPherson pleaded guilty in October to involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, obstruction of an administrative proceeding, and 40 counts of serving as an airman without a certificate.
The backstory:
Court filings show that on September 28, 2022, McPherson took off from Queen City Airport in Allentown as the pilot-in-command with student pilot K.K. and crashed shortly after, resulting in K.K.’s death.
Prosecutors said McPherson acted with gross negligence, knowing he was not competent to fly as pilot-in-command. He had two prior crashes, nearly a third, and failed a reexamination for his pilot’s certificate in September 2021.
McPherson voluntarily surrendered his pilot’s certificate in October 2021 and let his Temporary Airman Certificate expire in November 2021, acknowledging his inability to meet FAA standards.
He admitted to flying with passengers without a valid FAA pilot’s certificate between October 12, 2021, and September 20, 2022.
Investigators from the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General, FAA, and Salisbury Township Police Department worked on the case, which was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Robert Schopf and Special Assistant United States Attorney Marie Miller.
What we don’t know:
Authorities have not released further details about the circumstances leading up to the crash.
The Source: Information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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On Sunday, June 14, a bell will ring at the Historic Olde Courthouse in Mount Holly, New Jersey, as part of a festival to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary.
In the summer of 1776, officials rang the same bell at the courthouse in Burlington City, the seat of Burlington County at the time, after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The bell was moved to Mount Holly in 1796 when that city became the Burlington County seat.
Marisa Bozarth, Burlington County’s museum curator of history, said courthouse bells were rung in the 1700s to signify that something important was taking place.
“They would have rung it when there was a large court case of any significance, when the jury was coming back, so people knew to return to the courthouse to hear the verdict,” she said. “The bell was also rung any time there was any public reading of any sort of important document. It was their way to get the information out to the masses quickly.”
After the wording of the Declaration of Independence was finalized and the document was signed, every state received a copy so it could be shared with the people living there. At the time, some Burlington County residents wanted to remain loyal to Britain, while others supported the movement for independence, Bozarth said.
“I would think it was a bit of a scary time because when the Declaration of Independence was finally signed and then presented, it meant we were really going to war,” she said. “We were declaring our independence, but we weren’t officially an independent nation yet. It meant a scary time was coming because Britain wasn’t going to accept that and just let us walk away.”
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