Here’s When Will Everything Freeze Today
Might want to be off the roads by then.
With winter weather headed east, New Jersey is implementing a commercial vehicle ban on a number of major highways, unless you’re trucking critical goods. Beginning this morning at nine o’clock, commercial vehicles will be barred on Interstates 76, 78, 80, 195, 280, 287, 295, and 676 in the Garden State. Commercial vehicles banned from the Outerbridge Crossing too. Commercial vehicles will be allowed on the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, and the Atlantic City Expressway. There are some exemptions for trucks carrying critical goods.
We started at 56 degrees at 5 this morning. By 5pm it will be 23, a 33 degree drop. At 10pm it’ll be just 13. Anything that is wet is going to flash freeze. Roads, shoulders, sidewalks. Right now the forecast says that the actual freezing temperatures will arrive in central Monmouth and Ocean Counties at around 3pm so it may be smart to plan to be off the roads by then.
New Jersey is extending its public comment period for a rule that could make it more difficult to be admitted to the police academy. The New Jersey Police Training Commission wants to establish standards for pre-academy fitness and psychological testing for potential recruits. They say adding the qualifications would reduce the number of recruits who are dismissed from the academy because they can’t meet those standards and they argue a psych exam would also ensure recruits can withstand the stress. Public comment will be extended to January 21st.
Parents are concerned over a shortage of over the counter pain medication for children. The APP reports it’s really a national issue brought on by the early onset of the flu season and the respiratory illnesses that have gone around like crazy. Even some prescribed antibiotics are hard to find.
Meanwhile COVID numbers continue to jump: 3010 new cases ID’d by PCR test in the state yesterday. Another 941 by rapid test.
