The NFL hosts its first cold city Super Bowl this year in New Jersey.

“Super Bowl week will be very cold,” said Rutgers' climatologist David Robinson. “We’re set up for a wintry couple of weeks. It’s going to be cold and occasionally stormy. It’s too early to say whether we’re going to be in a tranquil pattern or unsettled pattern on the day of the game. By this time next week, we should know more about whether there’s the potential for an impactful storm”

New Jersey had a temperature of 73 degrees on Dec. 21, the first day of winter, but it fell by 50 degrees on Christmas Day.

Robinson said that if southern moisture coalesces with Arctic air, snow could fall at the Super Bowl.

“The introduction of moisture from the south increases the odds of a meaningful storm,” said Robinson. “You can’t really lock in anything yet in terms of storms but our long range models suggest that we’re going to be on the cold side of normal into the first couple of weeks of February.”