The Massive Apple’s going to freeze.
Town might be hit by a bone-chilling chilly stretch over the weekend adopted by doable snow Monday morning, meteorologists mentioned Friday.
Flurries are forecast to start falling in all 5 boroughs — and a lot of the tri-state space — as early as Sunday night time, mentioned FOX Climate meteorologist Cody Braud.
“We’re calling for snow showers however hold a detailed eye to see if it modifications, particularly as you head to work Monday,” Braud mentioned. “Denser snow might impede journey.”
As much as 3 or 4 inches of powder might pile up all through the day Monday, relying on how the mid-Atlantic storm varieties and strikes, he mentioned.
Over the weekend, town might be struck by frigid morning temperatures within the excessive 20s.
“The air might be bitterly chilly. What’s going to catch folks’s consideration is the period,” Braud mentioned — including town has suffered by way of icy mornings for roughly two weeks.
“Earlier than that, we hadn’t seen a stretch of days the place we get up and it’s within the 20s for fairly some time.”
On Saturday, temperatures will drop to a partly sunny low of 29 levels with a excessive of 36 levels.
It will likely be even colder on Sunday with a low of 27 levels and a excessive of 38 levels.
In contrast, the coldest temperature ever recorded within the Massive Apple on Jan. 4 was -3 levels in 1918 and the bottom temp ever on Jan. 5 was -4 levels in 1904.
Town will seemingly “not less than see flurries” Monday, however there’s an opportunity the storm might evolve or change instructions, Braud mentioned.
“The storm is simply now forming within the Midwest and because it takes form, we will predict extra,” Braud mentioned Friday. “The snow is just not a slam dunk but.”
The typical snowfall in January within the Massive Apple is 8.7 inches.
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