The National Weather Ser­vice has posted a Coastal Flood Watch for the Jer­sey Shore for Thurs­day evening through Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 2nd-3rd, 2014 in advance of a win­ter storm that will impact our region.

A win­ter storm will approach our region from the south in advance of cold air. Rain will be wide­spread over our region by Thurs­day after­noon with an antic­i­pated changeover to a snow event Thurs­day night into Fri­day morn­ing. The Coastal Flood Watch means that the poten­tial exists for mod­er­ate tidal flood­ing espe­cially dur­ing time of high tide on Fri­day. Minor coastal flood­ing is pos­si­ble at time of high tide on Thurs­day. High tide at the Townsend’s Inlet Bridge between Avalon and Sea Isle City will occur Thurs­day at 8:43pm, and again on Fri­day at 9:06am. Never attempt to drive through any stand­ing water. Now would be a good time for you to secure any loose out­door objects on your prop­erty since strong winds are fore­cast for the end of this storm event on Friday.

The National Weather Ser­vice is fore­cast­ing rain to changeover to snow along the Jer­sey Cape on Thurs­day evening with a snow event overnight into Fri­day morn­ing. Mod­er­ate snow accu­mu­la­tions are possible.

Please con­tinue to mon­i­tor this web­site and tra­di­tional local media for weather updates over the next 72 hours. If you have an emer­gency, please dial 9–1-1.

Here is the text of the Coastal Flood Watch issued by the National Weather Ser­vice on Jan­u­ary 1, 2014:

Coastal Flood Watch in effect from late Thurs­day night through
Fri­day afternoon…

The National Weather Ser­vice in Mount Holly has issued a coastal
Flood Watch… which is in effect from late Thurs­day night through
Fri­day afternoon.

* Loca­tion… coastal sec­tions of New Jer­sey from Rar­i­tan Bay,
along the Ocean­side into Delaware Bay and coastal sec­tions of
Kent and Sus­sex County in Delaware.

* Coastal flood­ing… the poten­tial exists for mod­er­ate tidal
flood­ing espe­cially along north coastal New Jer­sey dur­ing the
high tide cycle on Fri­day day. Some minor tidal flood­ing could
also occur with the high tide cycle on Thurs­day morn­ing as
astro­nom­i­cal Spring tides are occur­ring with the new moon.

* At Sandy Hook, New Jer­sey high tide occurs at 855 am EST Fri­day
with a fore­cast tide level of 8.0 to 8.5 feet above mean lower
low water.

* At Sea­side Heights, New Jer­sey high tide occurs at 825 am EST
Fri­day with a fore­cast tide level of near 7.5 feet above mean
lower low water.

* At Atlantic City, New Jer­sey high tide occurs at 832 am EST
Fri­day with a fore­cast tide level of around 7.0 feet above mean
lower low water.

* At Cape May, New Jer­sey on the ocean front high tide occurs at
906 am EST Fri­day with a fore­cast tide level of 7.5 to 8.0 feet
above mean lower low water.

* At Break­wa­ter Har­bor, Delaware high tide occurs at 949 am EST
Fri­day with a fore­cast tide level of near 7.0 feet above mean
lower low water.

* At Rehoboth Beach, Delaware high tide occurs at 855 am EST
Fri­day with a fore­cast tide level of near 7.0 feet above mean
lower low water.

* Seas… 6 to 10 feet on the ocean and 2 to 5 feet on Delaware Bay.

* Impacts… the poten­tial exists for road­way flood­ing and pos­si­bly
some minor prop­erty dam­age. In addi­tion any over­wash has the
strong like­li­hood of freez­ing as tem­per­a­tures will be and remain
below freez­ing. Strong northerly winds gust­ing to 45 mph should
occur. Beach ero­sion is also possible.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A coastal Flood Watch means that con­di­tions are favor­able for the
devel­op­ment of mod­er­ate or major coastal flood­ing. Pay close
atten­tion to updated fore­casts and state­ments and take
appro­pri­ate action to pro­tect life and prop­erty. Fol­low the
rec­om­men­da­tions of local emer­gency man­age­ment officials.