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Bath Avenue in OG. 12:34 pm. Tow trucks working. By Carol Livingstone, FOB,  (“Friend of Blogfinger.”) and deputized roving reporter

1:30 p.m.    Rick Cuttrell:      Temperatures continue to fall and winds are on the increase. A wider band of heavy snow looks like it will develop across central and southern sections later this afternoon which will create near blizzard conditions.   Many locations in central NJ and northeastern northern NJ will see around one foot of snow.  This includes all of Monmouth County, northern Ocean, back through Philly and Trenton and then north through Middlesex and NYC metro.  6 to 10 inches to the north and south of this area.

Possibility of thunder and lighting later this afternoon.

The end time of the snow is becoming a bit more difficult to pin down particularly over coastal areas where a final band of snow may persist until 4 a.m. or 5 a.m.

3:00 PM.   Steve Mandeville of Main and Delaware tells us that the snow is falling extremely hard at this time–the heaviest he has ever seen.

Police are towing cars that are not parked on the south or east sides of the streets.  It’s 19 degrees  (feels like 4 degrees.)  Severe alert—winter storm warning in effect until 6:00 am Wednesday. Heavy snow from North Carolina up along the 95 corridor to Maine.   Storm is called Janus  (a two headed Roman god—perhaps the double headed brother  of the Greek god  of the sky—-Uranus.)

3:20 pm. Delaware and Mt. Hermon. By Steve Mandeville, FOB.

4:00 p.m.  Garden State Parkway “is a mess.” By Moe Demby, BF staff. 4:00 pm Jan. 21, 2014

5:04 p.m. Car off the road GSP. Near exit 102.  By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff © Jan 21, 2014

6:30 pm:  Dr. Carol:  Plows came down Bath Ave. at 6:30 (six hours after towing away the cars in the snow lane).

6:45 p.m. Abbott Avenue at Pilgrim Pathway. By Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff staff.

6:45 pm   Both videos by Moe Demby, Blogfinger staff.

7:00 pm:   Moderate to heavy snow continues throughout the area.  Lots of reports of 5 to 9 inches across much of the state with 10 and 11 inch reports in some areas including portions of interior Monmouth County on a line from Freehold to Colts Neck to Lincroft. Between 7 and 7 1/2 inches in Neptune as of 7:00 p.m.

Bands of moderate to heavy snow will continue to move through the area for the remainder of the evening hours.  By midnight, snow may start to taper down close to the Delaware River and turn lighter for a time in the remainder of NJ.  A final band of snow on the western side of the departing storm looks to develop and move into coastal sections between 2am and 4am before all snow moves offshore by around 5am or 6am.

Harsh conditions tomorrow and road conditions will be slow to improve with temperatures in the low to mid teens.  Travel on roadways only as necessary

Source: Rick Cuttrell, Tri-State Storm Watch and Municipal Clerk

7:00 p.m.  Steve Mandeville says that the snow is very cold and fine, causing it to blow around a great deal. Some areas seem very shallow, while other areas of drifting seem quite deep.   He walked his dog around Firemen’s Park and had trouble estimating the snow depth, but he suggests an average of 8 inches.

7:00 p.m. From Steve Mandeville’s porch

7:30   p.m.     From Ken:

7:30 pm by Ken Buckley.

Paul,
Mail lady delivered mail at 5. ( YES! Mail.) I measured depth in two sidewalk spots  One was six 1/2  inches in one spot and seven in another, that is in just seven hours, started here at 10:00.
The plows have been going up and down BROADWAY over and over.

10:51 pm.  From Plump Mike:   FINGER– you do a better job then Al Roker! Nice job covering the storm.

11 pm  From Linda Silver:  (? Is she related to Little Silver?)—-    It’s almost 11:00 pm and Mount Hermon Way has not been plowed. Where are our emergency services when we need them?