The dry and cold conditions have been center billing on the weather marquee for a while now. It’s the same cold and dry weather that eroded away Monday's snow chances for most of the state. It's also why I think New Jersey doesn't have much to worry about when another storm zips toward the area on Saturday.

Meteorology, like real estate, comes down to location, location, location. Where a storm ultimately winds up determines if an area gets a lot or a little precipitation. The storm we are tracking for Saturday continues to be slightly out of our storm window and moving away quickly. This will limit the opportunity it can have to drop snow.

I have said this in previous posts - I do think it will snow on Saturday but the ingredients for anything impactful are not coming together. So I think we can just expect to see passing snow showers that might deliver a coating to an inch or two.

Now back to the cold. The wind has been unrelenting, and it has been driving this Canadian air mass through our neighborhoods. This type of pattern will continue for the rest of the week. Saturday’s passing storm will relax the winds a touch and temperatures will be given the chance to climb to near-seasonable levels. But this will be short lived and the passing storm will kick up the winds and bring another round of cold back to New Jersey.