New Jersey is getting an early taste of winter, with frigid temperatures arriving Thursday night and a chance of light snow coming late Friday.

An arctic air mass is settling over New Jersey tonight, bringing the coldest temperatures of the season so far — with lows dropping into the single digits in northwestern areas and teens elsewhere.

Gusty winds will make it feel even colder than that.

The frigid conditions follow Thursday’s cold front passage, which brought gusty northwest winds of 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph through the evening. These winds will diminish late tonight as high pressure builds in from the west.

Several locations may approach or set record low temperatures Friday morning, including Newark airport, where the record of 15 degrees was set in 1935, Atlanti

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