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It was a storm that left so many here in New Jersey devastated. It was hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime weather event that caused so much heartache and destroyed and damaged so many homes and businesses here in the Garden State.

According to njweather.org, with an average statewide temperature of 41 degrees, we have tied 1932 as the warmest January in New Jersey since they started keeping records in 1895.

Our next storm system arriving late-week will be potent; but once again, almost exclusively a rainmaker for New Jersey.

One soggy, snowy storm system exits New Jersey, and now our attention turns to the next one arriving Thursday into Friday.

Accumulations will be very limited Sunday into Monday, but this weekend could bring New Jersey's first official "snow event" of the season.

Two of these seven bullet points involve inclement weather for New Jersey — and we're talking about rain, not snow.

As you may have noticed, we are in the middle of a stark cooling trend; by the weekend, temperatures will be more typical of the 'dead of winter' here in NJ.

The last weekend of October will be quiet, seasonably cool, and mainly dry. But showers creep into New Jersey's forecast for Halloween Monday.

Overall, this will likely be New Jersey's coldest day since the first of May. But a warming trend is ahead.

Three days of November-ish weather are in the forecast for New Jersey, including a good possibility of an overnight frost/freeze away from cities and the coast.