Wintry storm headed for NYC on Thursday with snow, sleet and rain

A fast-moving winter tempest is expected to blast New York and the tristate country connected Thursday morning, bringing snow, sleet and yet rainfall to the region.

Precipitation volition begin overnight Wednesday into aboriginal Thursday morning, the National Weather Service said. But due to the fact that the strategy volition stroke done the country truthful quickly, the skies should wide up by Thursday evening.

“This is simply a fast-moving strategy and overmuch of the [precipitation] looks to autumn successful astir a 6- to 9-hour period from aboriginal Thursday greeting into aboriginal Thursday afternoon,” forecasters said.

MTA workers use brackish to the sidewalk extracurricular the F enactment subway presumption astatine Jay St. and York St. successful DUMBO, Brooklyn, connected Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)

The heaviest precipitation volition autumn close astir greeting commute time, according to meteorologists. The tempest volition initially bring snowfall to the region, but arsenic temperatures lukewarm up passim the day, it volition change into sleet and yet rain.

“The seashore volition spell implicit to plain rainfall the quickest arsenic temperatures emergence supra freezing,” the NWS said. Meanwhile, interior areas of North Jersey and the little Hudson Valley volition instrumentality the longest to lukewarm up.

In New York City, up to 2 inches of snowfall could autumn crossed the 5 boroughs earlier sleet and rainfall statesman coming down. Even if aggregate inches of snowfall autumn successful the city, the achromatic worldly is expected to melt alternatively rapidly due to the fact that of the day somesthesia increase. High temperatures connected Thursday are inactive predicted successful the debased 40s.

Though Thursday’s tempest is expected to wide the country quickly, that will not mean the extremity of nasty weather for the region. While Friday is forecast to beryllium comparatively calm, different bout of snow, sleet and rainfall is predicted for Saturday day into Sunday morning.

“Snow [Saturday] evening should commencement to premix with sleet and past freezing rainfall precocious extracurricular of the NYC metro country particularly to the north/west,” NWS forecasters said, “and alteration to each rainfall for the NYC metro country and Long Island astatine first, past inland aft daybreak Sunday.”

Small amounts of crystal are imaginable connected some Thursday day and Sunday morning, but forecasters said chances of crystal successful the 5 boroughs are comparatively low. The areas astatine biggest hazard of crystal accumulation are North Jersey and the little Hudson Valley.