newjersey

News 12’s Isabel Litterst and photojournalist Mike Roberts took a trip to Franklin to check it out.

Road Trip

Road Trip Close to Home

Franklin Mineral Museum

New Jersey

NJ Weather Stories

Weather stories

NJ | Weather

MTNJWx10p1207_2023-12-07-22-29-24

Back in my day. All right, let's see where the forecast is headed. As we go into the weekend, we've got rain. We have wind and a lot of it. Now, the timing of it is going to be critical. Most of the storminess that we're anticipating for Sunday is going to happen very late Sunday night into early Monday morning, the weekend is salvageable. Saturday is great and warm. We just see a little bit more cloud coverage. The first part of Sunday, up until about maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon should be dry. Then the showers start and become steadier and heavier when all is said and done. We're likely going to pick up between 1 to 2 inches of rain in our rain gauges and a lot of that is going to happen very quickly and then the winds are picking up also. So it's a wind driven rain and if we do approach wind gusts of 4045 maybe even 50 miles an hour and it lasts for a couple of hours occasionally hitting those gusts, not, it's not gonna be a 34 hour sustained 40 or 50 mile an hour. Wind gust, it's periodically happening, but that's the type of wind that could get the power to flicker from time to time. We're at 39 dropping down to about 32. The opportunity for rain is going to be Sunday night into Monday morning, Saturday is looking great. Sunday afternoon is ok. It's cloudy but you'll be able to feel it in the air that the rain is certainly going to be building. So for tonight, temperatures, twenties and thirties with just a few clouds around Friday is gorgeous with sunshine. Temperatures are back up into the upper forties. We look at the extended forecast and as I mentioned, Saturday is warm but clouds are building Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon, cloudy dry that changes going into Sunday night into early Monday morning. Give yourself a lot of extra time in that Monday morning routine to potentially deal with some travel headaches, getting wherever you go, the rain and the wind are gone for next week, the sunshine is back out but the cold that returns with morning lows in the twenties and thirties, daytime highs in the lower forties.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/ae1bc51e-2b48-40ff-9c2a-b2725dcdd176/ae1bc51e-2b48-40ff-9c2a-b2725dcdd176.transcribe

Weather

MTNJRoadTrip1102_2023-11-02-17-30-49

Franklin Mineral Museum is the perfect place for those who are geologists at heart

MTNJRoadTrip1102

If you're a geologist at heart or maybe your little one is, we've got just the place for you to check out this week's road trip. Close to home news. 12, New Jersey's Isabel Litters and photojournalist, Mike Roberts. Take us to the Franklin Mineral Museum in Sussex County. You know, Franklin is the home to 420 different minerals of which we have almost all of them displayed here. This one right here is my favorite. Uh You picked a good one when you live in Franklin. You know about the minerals right across the road here used to be the country's richest iron mine before they even figured out that they had zinc across the road. Then they crossed the road literally. And they got the world's richest zinc mine here that operated until 1954. Everything that you're looking at it here was waste rock. So I noticed something different about that rock right here. Franklinite. Tell me about that. Well, Franklinite was the most prevalent zinc bearing mineral that we have here. This is what they named the state mineral after the rock is much heavier than what it looks. Oh, my gosh. I was not expecting that. Everything that you're looking in this room was found in the local war body like copper gold manga Brazil Magsi or I be, yeah, it is actually Magnesia Rebeck. Oh gosh. When I was little we got to go to the mineral dump. That's where they put all of waste rock that ended up containing all these wonderful minerals that were standing amongst here. This is the best dump I've ever been to as part of your tour. You will come down here to the buckwheat dump, which is not your average landfill. You can see here these rocks which were actually discarded from the Franklin mine across the street from the museum. And if you spend enough time here, you might actually find some hidden treasures. I like this one. There's about 80 some minerals I believe. Oh, look at that. Oh my God. That will fluoresce different colors when subjected to ultraviolet light. Push that red button. Wow, that is amazing. The best part of it for me is seeing the surprise on their face because they have no clue what they're walking into. Those are pretty amazing. They're coming in on a field trip to go look at rocks. But when they see the rocks that we have, the fact that those colors came together in the same rock naturally. It's amazing. And that's something that you can't anticipate until you've actually seen it for more information on hours and ticket pricing. Just visit news 12 dot com.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/7ea5397e-d91e-46af-9a0d-df0a28199970/7ea5397e-d91e-46af-9a0d-df0a28199970.transcribe