NEW YORK (AP) — A winter climate system shifting by means of the U.S. is anticipated to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mixture of snow and freezing rain from the southern Appalachians to the Northeast — though it’s too early to say precisely which areas will get what sort of precipitation and the way a lot.
Particulars on the storm’s path ought to agency up this week because the Pacific system strikes by means of Colorado and New Mexico on Thursday and into Texas and the Southeast earlier than shifting up the East Coast, stated Tony Fracasso, a meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service’s Climate Prediction Heart in School Park, Maryland.
“It’s nonetheless just a few days away, so we’ll need to hash out the storm monitor — the place the precipitation falls, and the way lengthy the chilly air can keep,” he stated Wednesday.
Main U.S. cities accustomed to white winters — equivalent to Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia — didn’t obtain a lot snow final 12 months as a result of an absence of chilly air.
The Nationwide Climate Service in New York Metropolis posted on social media platform X on Wednesday that the town has a low likelihood of snow and sleet Saturday into Sunday, with important snowfall anticipated in areas west and north of the town.
Earlier this week, the NWS of New York stated that 2023 would go down as the town’s “least snowiness” 12 months, with simply 2.3 inches (6 centimeters) measured in Central Park.
