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Weekend Weather Outlook

An isolated low-pressure in the southern Rockies, a typical fall cold front rolls through the Pacific Northwest, and hefty high pressure systems run amok in this weekend's skies.

Saturday

A strong high pressure system will be centered over the Tennessee Valley for the start of the weekend. This will bring dry, quiet weather to most areas along and east of the Mississippi River. However, some moisture will move along the outer fringes of this system. As a result, there could be a few showers for the far Upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes, with some isolated thunderstorms set for eastern Florida.

Just to the west of this high pressure, a low pressure system that has been “cut-off” from the normal weather flow will spin over the Four Corners states. Rain showers and a few thunderstorms will be likely for much of the eastern Rockies into the central and southern High Plains, with a few severe storms in the mix. The potential for high winds, hail, and even tornadoes is not out of the question in eastern New Mexico.

The tallest peaks in the Rockies will be cold enough for wet snow or a rain/snow mix. Generally small accumulations are expected, although southern peaks could see heavy snow or blizzard conditions nearer the low's center.

The Northwest will be under the influence of an approaching cold front on Saturday. Occasional rain showers will be found across western and northern Washington, but there could be some mountain snow in the higher elevations of the Cascades.

A few other places will stay dry on Saturday. This includes most of California into the Great Basin, the northern Rockies, and the northern Plains.

Across the eastern half of the U.S., temperatures will generally peak in the 60s, 70s and lower 80s. Some of the Upper Great Lakes and interior Northeast will only see temperatures in the upper 50s. There will be widespread 40s and 50s across the Great Basin and Rockies, but the higher elevations will only see 30s and 40s. Expect mainly 60s, 70s, and lower 80s for the rest of the West.

Sunday

Sunday is set to arrive with Rocky Mountain storms sliding into the High Plains while another low rinses out the Pacific Northwest.

Outside of some highland snow, a low-pressure system centering itself in Colorado gears up to fight the current drought with replenishing rainfall. Although lighter, more scattered precipitation is forecasted through most of Colorado, the low’s warm front synergizes with a moisture plume from the Gulf of Mexico to drench the southern High Plains. Flash flooding could occur near the Texas Panhandle on Sunday afternoon.

The Pacific Northwest will be back into its autumn stride on Sunday, experiencing another of the classic fall cold fronts that douse the region this time of year. Showers along the front should arrive in the morning and will persist through the day on Sunday, pushing eastward.

Clear skies are on the docket for most elsewhere on Sunday, even in Florida, as sturdy and expansive high pressure systems settle across the Intermountain West and the entire eastern half of the nation.

Hot temperatures will surge northward through the eastern Great Plains and Deep South on Sunday, surging thermometer readings through the 80s and upper 70s, on par with South Florida, the Desert Southwest, and California's Central Valley. Elsewhere, some moderate fall 70s swath most of the nation, such as the Mid-Atlantic, the Ohio Valley, the High Plains, and northwestern Valleys.

Sunday's cooler corridors will include Appalachia, the Northeast, and the Intermountain West, hitting just the 50s and 60s. However, the higher peaks and plateaus of the Rockies are forecasted to only reach the 40s and 30s, with a few mountains keeping it subzero all day.

CARLSTADT — For more than a decade, knitting and crocheting fanatics have walked its aisles of large bins filled with a vast variety of yarn in all textures and colors. But the Lion Brand Yarn Outlet will soon be closing, shutting down a small sanctuary for those devoted to needlework.

"We will miss each of you," the store told its customers via Facebook after it announced its closing in December.

For customer Darlene Dove, the Lion Brand outlet is closing too soon.

"This is only my second time coming here, and I'm sad to see it go," said Dove. "I have a knitting and crochet group in the Bronx, and this is where I get all my materials."

"This is about the saddest thing I've read," one customer commented on the outlet's Facebook announcement.

The outlet center was the last brick-and-mortar outpost for the Carlstadt-based Lion Brand company, which was founded in 1878 and soon began to make its mark in the fashion world. Vanna White was briefly a spokesperson for the brand, according to its website.

It opened a flagship store, the Lion Brand Yarn Studio, in Manhattan in 2008. That store closed in April 2020.

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Today, Lion Bran yarns are sold online and in craft chains including Michael's and Jo-Ann stores, discount chains and independent stores. It is the leading distributor of knitting and craft yarn in the U.S.

The outlet store on Kero Road in Carlstadt is expected to close for good in late March, although there is no set date. A notice advises customers to call before coming.

The store has inventory marked down 50% and features "three to a pack" or any three packs of yarn at a discount.

Lexa Mingo took advantage of the store-closing prices on Thursday to stockpile some supplies. "Projects can get pricey, especially now, and half-price is incredible," said Mingo.

The outlet is currently open limited hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

After Feb. 13, days will be cut back. Check the Lion Brand Outlet Facebook page for last-minute changes.

CARLSTADT — A stretch of Lincoln Street at Broad Street will be renamed Saturday in honor of a World War II veteran and former prisoner of war who grew up in a house on the street.

Vito "Pal" Trause, 93, now of Washington Township, is receiving the honor at the insistence of Dario Sforza, the Becton Regional High School principal, and Ellie Iannuzzi, the widow of Trause's childhood friend Alphonse "Funzi" Iannuzzi, who was also a World War II veteran and had a section of street renamed for him in the borough.

"Now they said, 'Put me up there, too,' " Trause said, referring to the Carlstadt Borough Council. "Usually, they pass away when they do these things, but I'm still alive. I can see the sign. I think that's great."

Recently, Sforza, who is also a Washington Township resident, teamed with Ellie Iannuzzi to lobby local officials to rename the corner after Trause while he is still alive, an experience Iannuzzi told Sforza that she regrets her husband missed. The Borough Council approved the measure Monday.

Trause gained recognition this summer, when his former high school, East Rutherford High School, now Becton Regional, awarded him a diploma through the state Department of Education's Operation Recognition program.

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As a youth on Lincoln Street, Trause took to sports, playing baseball and football for East Rutherford High School. He even faced Larry Doby, the Paterson native famous for following Jackie Robinson as the second player to move from baseball's Negro Leagues to the major leagues, in a high school baseball game.

Trause was an infantryman and a scout who trained in Africa before being sent to the front in Italy.

He and another soldier were captured in September 1944 and sent to Stalag VII-A, Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp. When Trause arrived at the prison, he saw German guards beating up two American soldiers. He realized the abused soldiers were of Italian descent and quickly decided to hide his heritage from the SS officers.

"I'm afraid that if I tell them my name is Vito, they might beat me up, too," Trause recalled. "I told everyone my name was Al."

The lie turned out to be unnecessary, as he and his fellow captives were soon known only by numbers, which they had to recite in German during roll call each morning.

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Trause worked daily in Munich. He worked on railroads and recovered dead bodies. He toiled through much of the winter, working without proper footwear. When his foot swelled, threatening him with amputation or possibly death, a Jewish prisoner of the Nazis who worked alongside him stole a pair of shoes from a corpse. The other man hid them under his coat to give to Trause. He believes the gesture saved his life.

"Whenever my feet hurt, I remember that man," he said.

After five months as a POW, he was liberated by American forces in May 1945.

Speaking with Trause, "you get a sense for the appropriate way to live life, because he could have easily been bitter when he came home after the war, but he chose to live," Sforza said. "There aren't many individuals like him anymore, who laugh and smile through life."

The street renaming will cement Trause's "story and legacy in history," Sforza said.

Trause looks forward to returning to his hometown.

“Carlstadt was a great town," he said. "I knew everyone when I was there. I always go back to Carlstadt.”

Staff Photographer Kevin R. Wexler contributed to this article.

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