How it’s done: a snowblower pointed away from Broad Street during a storm in January, 2014. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
You know who they are: the folks who shovel snow from their property into the street after plows have been through. Hey, maybe you’ve done it yourself.
Red Bank officials say it’s a costly pain in the neck, and plan to make it a violation enforced with “zero tolerance.”
Seagulls settled on a patch of ice in the Navesink River off Red Bank Thursday. The weather forecast for coming days on the Greater Green remained unsettled, however.
With a major storm threatening the northeastern United States, here’s what we can expect in coming days, according to the National Weather Service.
It wasn’t in the forecast issued earlier in the day by the National Weather Service, but the Greater Red Bank Green experienced the season’s first snowfall Thursday afternoon.
A plow clearing Broad Street during a storm in March, 2014. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Stop signs, snow removal, street sweeping and other road-related issues were on the agenda at the Red Bank borough council’s workshop session Wednesday night.
Some new ordinances are expected to follow.
A day after temperatures climbed into the mid-60s, winter roared back to life Monday morning, leaving a forsythia shrub on Prospect Avenue in Red Bank laden with snow.
Worse for drivers, the wet snow made for sloppy and slippery conditions, with several minor accidents reported by local police.
April arrived Sunday, bringing springlike temperatures in the mid-60s to the Greater Red Bank Green. But the forecast for Monday, or at least a few hours of it, was somewhat more wintry.
Dense fog made for slow going on River Road in Fair Haven Thursday night. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
Here’s the National Weather Service forecast outlook for Friday and beyond on the Greater Red Bank Green: Read More
A car left on South Street during the storm. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
For the second time this year, a snowstorm that plopped about a foot of snow on Red BankWednesday and early Thursday came with a blizzard of parking tickets.
Police issued 260 parking violations during the storm, tying a one-day record set during a January 4 storm, police Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen.
Rapidly rising temperatures began turning more than a foot of snow from an overnight storm into slush and puddles Thursday morning, as seen on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank, above. And on Drs. James Parker Boulevard, the heavy, wet stuff made for good snowman-building.
Click more for other scenes from Red Bank in the aftermath of the spring snowstorm. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
Downed lines required the closure of the eastern end of Madison Avenue, near Branch Avenue. Below, the JCP&L outage map as of 6:30 a.m. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The fourth snowfall of March, 2018, left more than a foot of heavy snow on ground and thousands of Monmouth County residents without electricity Thursday morning.
Dozens of homes and businesses on the Greater Red Bank Green had no power as of 6:30 a.m. after the wet snow brought down lines across the region. Schools that had previously announced delayed openings changed plans and called a snow day Thursday.
With a northeaster bearing down on the coast, a state of emergency in effect and schools closed, redbankgreen took a quick spin around the Greater Red Bank Green on a pre-snow snow day to find… not much happening Wednesday morning.
Neither snow nor sleet nor rain was falling on Red Bank as of 6 a.m. Wednesday. But school closings, event postponements and a state of emergency declared by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy had the region braced for a storm named ‘Toby’ that could dump some 15 inches of heavy, soggy snow on the area throughout the day.
Spring begins Tuesday at 12:15 p.m., and while a forsythia bud on River Road in Fair Haven seemed ready to proclaim the new season Monday, a brewing storm threatened to dump a foot of more of heavy, wet snow on the Greater Red Bank Green Tuesday and Wednesday.
Streets and roads on the Greater Red Bank Green were just beginning to get covered in wet snow at 6 a.m. Tuesday as the third coastal storm in two weeks arrived.
Slippery conditions were expected for the morning commute as our area gets up to three inches, according to the National Weather Service. Schools on the Green announcing two-hour delays as of 5:45 a.m. included Red Bank, Red Bank Regional and Red Bank Charter.
Here’s the extended weather forecast.
After a cloudy morning and early afternoon, with temperatures peaking in the low 40s, the Greater Red Bank Green is in for rain mixing with snow Monday night, according to the National Weather Service.
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By JOHN T. WARD
This week’s snowstorm was no match for a January blizzard, both in terms of of the amount of white stuff left behind and the number of parking tickets issued by Red Bank police.
In contrast to the ticket blizzard that racked up 260 parking violations during the January 4 and 5 storm, the latest storm prompted just 25 tickets, police Chief Darren McConnell told redbankgreen.
A storm that dropped several inches of wet, heavy snow on the Greater Red Bank Green Wednesday left dozens of customers without electrical service early Thursday morning, as shown in JCP&L’s outage map above.
The Greater Red Bank Green is in for a mostly sunny day Tuesday, with temperatures peaking at about 42 degrees, according to the National Weather Service forecast issued early Tuesday. (Click to enlarge.)
And what about the snowstorm everyone’s been buzzing about?
No, that wasn’t quite a full moon rising over White Street in Red Bank Wednesday night. But it will be full on Thursday, the first of two such events in March; the second, a so-called blue moon, will appear on March 31.
The gravitational tug of the moon is expected to factor into flooding associated with heavy rains starting Thursday night and lasting through the day Friday. According to the National Weather Service, a flood watch is in effect for low-lying and coastal areas during the period, when several inches of rain are expected, along with wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour as part of a “major coastal storm.”
Here’s the extended forecast:
It was shorts and bare-arms weather on Broad Street in Red Bank for the second day in a row Wednesday, when unseasonably warm temperatures topped out in the high 70s, according to the National Weather Service.
The outlook for the Greater Green Thursday shows a return to seasonal norms, with highs in the mid-40s, likely accompanied by rain. Check out the extended forecast:
A light snowfall on the Greater Red Bank Green Saturday night was all but melted away by non-stop sunshine and above-average temperatures Sunday. And as Presidents’ Day inaugurates a new week, we’re in for some record warmth in coming days, according to the National Weather Service,
Check out the forecast through Monday:
What’s in store weatherwise for the Greater Red Bank Green this weekend as we head into Washington’s Birthday, also known as Presidents’ Day? In a word, precipitation.
According to the National Weather Service, we’ll see some rain, some peekaboo sunshine and some snow, perhaps as much as three inches.
Check out the forecast through Monday:
Though there’s rain, snow and sleet forecast for the Greater Red Bank Green Wednesday morning, the wintry mix is expected to have a “limited’ impact and leave behind little or no accumulated snow, according to the National Weather Service.
Here’s the extended forecast. (Click to enlarge.)
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The chance of more than an inch of snow accumulating on the Greater Red Bank Green Tuesday was less than one in ten, according to the National Weather Service.
Here’s the extended forecast. (Click to enlarge.)
Temperatures peaking in the mid-to-high-50s were expected along with showers and possible thunderstorms on the Greater Red Bank Green Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Click ‘read more’ to get the extended forecast. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)