The National Weather Ser­vice has issued a Win­ter Storm Watch for the Bor­ough and the rest of Cape May County for Wednes­day evening through Thurs­day morn­ing.  A storm sys­tem is expected to bring some snow and rain and nor’easter-type con­di­tions to our region Wednes­day evening through Thurs­day morn­ing.  Travel could be dif­fi­cult.  Please con­tinue to mon­i­tor tra­di­tional media out­lets for updates in advance of this next win­ter storm.

Win­ter Storm Watch in effect from Wednes­day evening through Thurs­day afternoon…

The National Weather Ser­vice in Mount Holly has issued a Win­ter Storm Watch… which is in effect from Wednes­day evening through Thurs­day afternoon.

* Loca­tions… the watch includes south­east­ern New Jer­sey… south­ern and cen­tral Delaware and much of the north­ern Mary­land East­ern Shore.

* Haz­ard types… pri­mar­ily snow and sleet.

* Accu­mu­la­tions… snow accu­mu­la­tion of 4 to 8 inches… the high­est amounts are fore­cast to be inland.

* Tim­ing… the pre­cip­i­ta­tion should begin as all snow Wednes­day night before chang­ing over to a snow and sleet mix early Thurs­day morn­ing. By mid day Thurs­day… pre­cip­i­ta­tion is expected to be pri­mar­ily rain

* impacts… travel could be sig­nif­i­cantly impacted across the region espe­cially Thurs­day morn­ing. In addi­tion to travel impacts… winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph will be pos­si­ble on Thurs­day which could lead to power out­ages if there has been sig­nif­i­cant heavy snow accu­mu­la­tions on power lines by the time the winds increase.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A Win­ter Storm Watch means there is a poten­tial for sig­nif­i­cant snow… sleet… or ice accu­mu­la­tions that may impact travel. Con­tinue to mon­i­tor the lat­est forecasts.