For New Jersey snow fans, snow plow operators and hardware stores, it’s been a long, quiet winter with no major snowstorms — and, in many areas, no snow at all. Even though we’re already a third of the way through January, a quick look outside tells the story of what the weather statistics are showing: No snow on the ground. Places like New Brunswick and Atlantic City haven’t even reported a tenth of an inch of snow (the precise amount needed to be classified by the National Weather Service as “measurable snow”) this entire season. And even though it’s farther north, the city of Newark has had…