STORM WRANGLER 12: Snowflakes fly in Sussex County as New Jersey sees its first snowfall of the season

We're going to get a look at those first snowflakes of the season this morning. Let's show you some of the photos that we have and videos of snow falling. This is what people in the northwest corner of our state are looking at. This is Highland Lakes near Vernon. The ground already covered. It's not nothing here. Not just in Sussex County either. Over in Passaic, this is Hewitt-West Milford already. The viewers there telling us maybe... A few inches of snow falling overnight, the roads getting slippery as they were heading. Take a look at that as they were heading out today. Yeah, break out the rulers, maybe not the shovels yet. Only eight minutes away, we have a similar scene. This is in Upper Greenwood. Snow piling up on the back patio there, and a fox, look at that, walking in the backyard. And if you have any photos and pictures and videos you want to see them, send them our way. Meteorologist Alex Calamia, you nailed it with the snow. And you're also getting... Getting some photos in, too. Yeah, photos, videos, really, really impressive sights over in North Jersey. This is another one in Passaic County from Laura in West Milford. You can see that the snow has basically stopped falling here, but there is some snow accumulating on pavement, and it really just takes a little slick coating, that's it, on pavement to cause problems. So here's the radar. You can see that rain snow line still creeping a little bit farther south and eastward. So we are now looking at some pretty decent snow intensity. In Bergen County, that's the thing. Temperatures are actually above freezing across the state, but some of this snow is falling heavy enough that you're seeing that accumulation. And when it's a really wet snow like this, it accumulates on the trees in a beautiful way, but it also could briefly accumulate on pavement. So we're tracking the rain snow line as it moves into Bergen County. Essex getting in on a little bit of that rain snow changeover. It's been rain snowing a little bit in Morris County for a while now. Parsippany kind of right on the border there. Morris, you're getting in on some of that rain and snow. So this is 287 and you can see those Morris County exits kind of right on the border of some of that rain, snow, shower activity. Most of the model guidance doesn't have additional accumulation. You could see a little bit trace possible in places like Passaic and Bergen County, but it's going to be a cold rain for the rest of us. Maybe a brief little mix over into snow. I know you're seeing some of this sunny icon stuff here and you're thinking maybe the sun's going to come out, but it is going to stay. Cloudy guys all day today with showers and drizzle and 30s for feels like temperatures. Yeah, plain cold rain for most of us here, but the lucky ones are chasing the snow this morning. Are they the lucky ones? All right, if you say so, Lauren, do take a look at this. These are the videos we've been seeing here throughout the morning. That snow coming down at a pretty decent clip there. News 12 New Jersey's Tony Caputo is joining us live. He's one of those lucky ones, allegedly, Lauren. Yeah, I'm with Lauren on this one. I mean, I feel like one of the lucky ones being able to cover snow like this and be out here on this first snowfall. Always exciting for me. That first snowfall of the season gets you ready for me anyway, for the holidays, a little before Thanksgiving. I'm just fine with that. Storm Wrangler 12 is out here as well. We are in Byram, basically Sussex County, as you know, right by Lake. Tomahawk. I mean, and the snow just continues to fall. It's actually falling a little harder a little earlier, but it's kind of lightened up, but it's really a nice, light snow that's not terribly wet. It's not soaking you down when you stand out in it for a while. It is a wetter snow, but not like sometimes when it gets on the. power lines and brings things down. No real issue there. Now we were talking to some kids here who used to sled down this hill. They were telling us before that fence was put up they used to come from the backyard all the way down this hill and then they would build like a an area to stop. Now how they did that I don't know. I mean you know Nick you know we probably did a lot of things when we were young like that and just I mean for me I don't remember that was a long long time ago. But man, that is treacherous, but fun. And that's what snow is all about, trying to have some fun. I know you don't like driving in it, things like that. This isn't that bad. It's just wet roadways. But hey, take it easy out there. Try to appreciate the fact that we're getting a little snow without ice, without any power issues, things like that. And hopefully, we get more nice snowfalls like this as the winter, or in this case, the fall, progresses. We're live in Sussex County, Tony Caputo. News 12, New Jersey.