6:00 AM | ****Major storm to bring rain, wind-whipped heavy, wet accumulating snow and damaging wind gusts to the region...power outages a big concern****
Paul Dorian
6-Day NYC Forecast
Today
Extremely windy and colder today with more rain early in the day that will change to snow later in the morning, accumulation of a few inches are possible and there can even be a period with blizzard-like conditions, highs near 40 degrees early in the day
Tonight
Extremely windy with snow and rain showers before midnight, cold, lows by morning in the low-to-mid 30’s
Saturday
Becoming partly sunny, very windy in the morning, diminishing winds in the afternoon, cold, lingering morning snow or rain shower possible, mid 40’s for afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Mainly cloudy, cold, late night lows in the middle 30’s
Sunday
Mainly sunny, chilly, low-to-mid 40’s
Monday
Mainly sunny, chilly, mid-to-upper 40’s
Tuesday
Increasing clouds, chilly, mid-to-upper 40’s
Wednesday
Mainly cloudy, a bit colder, chance of rain or snow, lower 40’s
Discussion
A major storm will throw just about everything conceivable to the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast US today including rain, damaging wind gusts, and the potential for accumulating heavy (wet) wind-whipped snow. The threat for power outages is high today and tonight given the expectation of 50-60 mph wind gusts and the saturated grounds from recent rains which tend to weaken the root support system. In addition, any heavy wet snow that does fall later today will increase the chances for power outages would as the snow would cling to tree limbs and weigh them down. As a result of intense high-latitude blocking to our north, this rapidly intensifying ocean storm will run into an “atmospheric brick wall” near Cape Cod, MA this morning and rather than taking the usual track for a nor’easter off to the east of Maine, it will be forced to the south. As it drops south, colder air will also plunge southward and so will the rain/snow line with the first area to go over to snow being upstate PA and southern NY. By later in the day, it very well should be snowing in NYC, Philly and throughout much of New Jersey and in all of these areas a few inches of wind-whipped heavy, wet snow is possible (i.e., blizzard-like conditions).
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Vencore, Inc.
vencoreweather.com