NYC blasted with arctic air, anticipating heaviest snowfall in 3 years

An arctic aerial wide settled implicit New York City and overmuch of the state Sunday evening, bringing a heavy freeze and the accidental of much snowfall than the metropolis has seen successful 3 years.

Between 3 and 5 inches of snow was expected successful 5 boroughs overnight, according to the National Weather Service. Up to 6 inches could autumn successful immoderate areas, meteorologists said.

“It remains precise imaginable that immoderate coastal country successful the advisory sees locally up to 6 inches of snow,” NWS forecasters wrote. “This volition besides apt beryllium connected however overmuch archetypal mixing of rainfall occurs and the improvement of immoderate dense snowfall banding.”

The snowfall started falling Sunday afternoon, with a flimsy premix of hail. As temperatures dropped, precipitation was expected to beryllium each snow overnight earlier stopping astir 1 a.m. Monday.

And portion temperatures remained successful the mid-to-low 30s Sunday afternoon, they were expected to dip into the teens overnight. By 7 a.m. Monday, the upwind chill was predicted to beryllium 9 degrees.

“Any untreated roads and walkways volition beryllium icy and hazardous aft the snowfall ends Sunday night,” the upwind work warned.

While 3-5 inches of snowfall was predicted for New York City, coastal Connecticut and Long Island, areas further inland were expected to spot 5 to 7 inches of snow. The Hudson Valley, North Jersey and confederate Connecticut were besides expected to spot colder temperatures.

In Hartford, temperatures were expected to dip to 7 degrees by Monday morning, with a upwind chill of minus-3. In Andover Township, N.J., the upwind chill was predicted to driblet to minus-9.

“We impulse New Yorkers to instrumentality this tempest earnestly and hole for hazardous question conditions,” New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol said Saturday. “If you indispensable travel, usage wide transit if possible, and let for other time.”

The past clip astatine slightest 5 inches of snowfall fell successful Central Park was successful January 2022. In the intervening years, precise small snowfall has been recorded successful the 5 boroughs.

New York volition conscionable beryllium 1 of galore areas crossed the state dealing with freezing acold temperatures and precipitation passim the week. A monolithic arctic aerial mass, caused by a disruption successful the polar vortex, could scope arsenic acold southbound arsenic Louisiana and Mississippi.

The National Weather Service issued acold upwind advisories ranging from Montana to the Florida Panhandle. In bluish Minnesota, temperatures were already tanking beneath minus-20 connected Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, parts of New England were expected to spot up to 10 inches of snowfall from Sunday into Monday.

With News Wire Services