7:00 AM | **Snow or snow showers likely on Thursday...small accumulations are on the table**

6-Day forecast for the New York City metro region

Today

Increasing clouds, quite cold, highs near 30 degrees; NW winds around 5-15 mph

Tonight

Partly cloudy, very cold, lows in the mid-to-upper teens

Thursday

Mainly cloudy, quite cold, some snow or snow showers likely during the PM hours, small accumulations of a coating to an inch or so possible, upper 20’s for afternoon highs

Thursday Night             

An evening snow shower possible then becoming partly cloudy, windy, very cold, lows in the lower 20’s with much lower wind chills

Friday

Mainly sunny, quite cold, windy, middle 30’s for highs and much lower wind chills

Saturday

Mainly sunny, cold, near 40 degrees

Sunday

Mainly sunny, not as cold, low-to-mid 40’s

Monday

Partly sunny, chilly, mid-to-upper 40’s

Discussion

Low pressure is organizing over the northern Gulf coast this morning and it will then head in an east-northeast direction reaching the waters off the Carolina coastline by early tomorrow morning. From there, the low pressure system will continue on an east-northeast track and undergo rapid intensification while out over the open waters of the western Atlantic. At the same time low pressure is intensifying rapidly off the coast on Thursday, a vigorous wave of energy in the northern jet stream will pass right overhead of the Mid-Atlantic region and this will enhance upward motion and produce quite unstable conditions. As a result, there is likely to be some snow or snow shower activity in the NYC metro region on Thursday afternoon and small accumulations of a coating to an inch or so are possible. On the heels of the low pressure, another windy and very cold day is coming to the Mid-Atlantic region on Friday, but temperatures should modify by the latter part of the weekend and the early part of next week.

Meteorologist Paul Dorian
Arcfield Weather