A cold front will sweep through New Jersey this evening, bringing a brief period of rain showers followed by rapidly falling temperatures and increasingly gusty winds that will make Thanksgiving Day feel particularly raw across the state.

The front is expected to move across the region between 7 p.m. and midnight Wednesday, with a broken band of quick-moving showers accompanying its passage, according to forecasters from the National Weather Service .

Winds will quickly shift to the west and increase behind the front, with gusts potentially reaching 40 mph during the frontal passage before settling to 20 to 30 mph overnight.

Temperatures will plummet from the 60s Wednesday afternoon to the mid- to upper 30s by Thursday morning, with wind chills potentially dropping into the mid- to up

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