7:00 AM | **Two big storms to impact the nation this week...strong winds here later tomorrow into Thanksgiving Day...ice/snow possible here this weekend**
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the New York City, NY metro region
Today
Mainly sunny, milder, highs near 60 degrees
Tonight
Increasing clouds, chilly, lows near 40 degrees
Wednesday
Mainly cloudy, mild, becoming windy, chance of showers, mid-to-upper 50’s for afternoon highs
Wednesday Night
Mainly cloudy, very windy with gusts past 40 mph, cold, maybe an early shower, near 40 degrees for late night lows
Thursday
Mainly sunny, very windy with gusts past 40 mph, cold, upper 40’s
Friday
Mainly sunny, cold, mid 40’s
Saturday
Increasing clouds, cold, chance of snow, sleet and/or rain late in the day or at night, lower 40’s
Sunday
Mainly cloudy, windy, cold, chance of rain, sleet and/or snow, mid-to-upper 40’s
Discussion
Two powerful weather systems will impact the nation over the next few days which includes the big travel day tomorrow and Turkey Day on Thursday. The first system is already bringing heavy snow to the Rocky Mountain States and this storm will intensify rapidly as it heads towards the Upper Midwest on Wednesday. The result will be a wide swath of significant accumulating snow from Denver to Minneapolis - just in time for Thanksgiving Day. Another storm will become a powerhouse for the west coast and it will bring significant rain and potentially damaging winds to coastal sections and heavy mountain snows measured by the foot to the Sierra Nevada. This storm will arrive tonight near the California/Oregon border and then will begin to gradually weaken as it moves inland.
In the local region, the first storm will drag a cold front through here at mid-week and we’ll likely experience very strong winds from later Wednesday into Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. The second storm will cross the country and impact us here this weekend. Enough cold air will be around to raise the possibility of ice and/or snow at the onset of the weekend precipitation event likely in the late Saturday/early Sunday time frame.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Perspecta, Inc.
perspectaweather.com