6:00 AM | ***Accumulating snow from Saturday night into Sunday morning...bitter cold, strong winds to follow***
Paul Dorian
6-Day forecast for the New York City metro region
Today
Partly sunny, breezy, cold, highs in the low-to-middle 30’s; W-NW winds around 5-15 mph
Tonight
Partly cloudy, quite cold, nothing more than a flurry, lows in the middle 20’s
Saturday
Increasing clouds, becoming breezy, cold, near 40 degrees for afternoon highs
Saturday Night
Mainly cloudy, quite cold, snow is likely late, middle 20’s for late night lows
Sunday
Mainly cloudy with a chance of snow during the AM hours, partly sunny in the afternoon, windy, very cold, near 30 degrees
Monday
Mainly sunny, breezy, very cold, upper 20’s
Tuesday
Partly sunny, brisk, still quite cold, lower 30’s
Wednesday
Partly sunny, breezy, not as harsh, near 40 degrees
Discussion
The next in a series of “clipper” systems will weaken today as it pushes into the Mid-Atlantic region and this will limit its impact around here with little to no snow expected in the area. By tonight, another Arctic air mass will invade the north-central US from Canada, and this one will be brutal...perhaps the worst of all since this cold pattern got cranking around Thanksgiving Day.
Meanwhile, yet another “clipper” system will head in an east-to-southeast direction on Saturday crossing over the central Plains, Midwest and Ohio Valley, and this is the one with the greatest potential of producing accumulating snow in the Mid-Atlantic region...including the I-95 corridor. When this system arrives on Saturday night, it looks like it will have quite a bit of upper-level support; specifically, in terms of a powerful jet streak. This jet streak is likely to generate strong upward motion across the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday night and Sunday morning assuring there is no weakening as compared with today’s “clipper” system. The result is likely to be accumulating snow from Saturday night into early Sunday in the Mid-Atlantic region and this should include the I-95 corridor from DC-to-Philly-to-NYC. Preliminary snowfall estimates are 2-4 inches for this area with isolated higher amounts possible.
Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather