| 2026-01-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Hazy sun, 30° Min/max: 29/37° Drove past two of the Newark reservoirs along Route 23, and the Jersey City reservoir along Route 287, yesterday afternoon and all are low. |
| 2026-01-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | T | NA | T | NA | | Sunny, with a few clouds --mostly in the eastern sky, 28° Min/max: 27/41° Several snow squalls yesterday late in the afternoon. The one at 4:30pm was intense, with extremely heavy snowfall, and strong winds, changing direction throughout the squall. Almost blew over a 7' garden arbor. It was snowglobesque. By dark the ground was covered; but by OBS this morning just a light dusting remains on grassy surfaces only. |
| 2026-01-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.27 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 37° Min/max: 37/46° Rain did not start until afternoon. Continued into the evening with mostly light rain with an occasional short period of heavier rain interspersed. |
| 2026-01-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 34° Min/max: 34/47° Some early morning bird song beginning. |
| 2026-01-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 35° Min/max: 29/45° The last of the natural snow is gone; only some tiny piles where it had been plowed or shoveled remain. |
| 2026-01-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 38° Min/max: 38/42° Yesterday's warmth did in the remaining snowpack, with only a few isolated patches on the northern side of the house. A circle of open water above the bubbler in the pond. |
| 2026-01-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.05 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.5 | NA | | Light fog, 36° Min/max: 34/40° First day to reach 40* in quite a while. Down to 50% snow coverage on south facing lawn, but everywhere else is retaining snow pack, ranging from 0.2" to 0.9" deep. |
| 2026-01-06 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.5 | NA | | Overcast, 32° Min/max: 32/32° Several snow flurries yesterday with one leaving a fresh dusting. Paths through snow getting wider; and one or two patches of bare ground visible in snowpack, but almost everything on the ground is still snow covered. |
| 2026-01-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 1.0 | NA | | Overcast, 21° Min/max: 20/29° One brief shaft of sunlight from the East shining under the bank of thick clouds --striking the top of the mountains on the western side of the lake; and then it's gone and it's back to grey, overcast skies. Like "Firefall" you need to be looking in the right place at the right time for its brief appearance. |
| 2026-01-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.2 | 0.01 | 1.0 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 22° Min/max: 22/26° More light snow overnight. Large snowflakes were visible in the snow on the gauge post top. |
| 2026-01-03 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.8 | NA | | Sunny, 13° Min/max: 12/26° Snow flurries on and off yesterday. Snow in the gauge melted down to a single drop. Large 'ice volcano' on the pond above the bubbler. |
| 2026-01-02 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 1.5 | NA | | Overcast, with a flake or two falling, 18° Min/max:16/30° I don't know when the temps rose to 30°, as it was in the teens at OBS yesterday and never got out of the 20°s all day. A light dusting of snow fell overnight; did not quite make it to the 0.01" line after melting. It was snowing hard enough at 12:41am to turn on the pond camera. Likely lake effect snow. |
| 2026-01-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.5 | 0.04 | 2.0 | NA | | Partly cloudy, windy, 19° Min/max: 19/29° The squall line was moving through at 6am bringing very heavy snow. Yak-Trax and ski pole again for morning OBS. There had been a short "sugar coating" around 2pm that briefly left a dusting, but it was gone quickly. A happy & productive New Year to all! {EDIT: Observer reported 0.40 for new snowfall melted core. This is high and appears to be a decimal typo. Changed SWE report of 0.40 to NA until observer can be contacted. CoCoSTAFF DNT} [Ed. of Ed: Thanks, Mat, for catching my error. It's corrected now.] |