Metro

Snow won’t fall in New York City this week after all, forecasts show

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Published Nov. 5, 2019, 11:33 a.m. ET
Pedestrians walk through a heavy late morning rain.
Pedestrians walk through a heavy late morning rain. Getty Images

Snow will be a no-show in the Big Apple later this week, after all, according to the latest forecasts.

Meteorologists initially predicted that New York City would possibly see a wet snowfall Thursday night into Friday as temperatures plunge, but that has now changed.

Instead, New Yorkers can expect a chilling rainfall Thursday night as the low temperature is predicted to drop to 38 degrees.

“If any snow is seen, it will be the far distant suburbs of the Hudson Valley and New Jersey,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Paul Walker told The Post on Tuesday, adding, “I don’t think it will be anything near the city.”

Walker noted, “It will rain here in the city – a cold rain.”

But by Friday morning, the sun is forecast to shine in the Big Apple with a high of 42 degrees and a low of 30 degrees.

Meanwhile, the first snowflakes of the season are expected to fall across the Northeast as an Alberta clipper system moves in, forecasts show.

A parade of arctic cold blasts will continue marching through the Plains, Midwest, South and East, culminating in the coldest air of the season early next week, according to The Weather Channel.
A parade of arctic cold blasts will continue marching through the Plains, Midwest, South and East, culminating in the coldest air of the season early next week, according to The Weather Channel.The Weather Channel

The clipper system will track across the eastern Great Lakes and into northern New England on Wednesday night and a cold rain with temps in the upper 30s can be expected in places like Erie, Pennsylvania and Buffalo, New York.

“Places that started off with a cold rain Wednesday night will have some wet snowflakes mixing in before precipitation ends, with falling temperatures Thursday,” according to AccuWeather.

The weather service predicted snowfall accumulations to be generally light, ranging from a coating to an inch or two in spots before the storm leaves Thursday.

A parade of arctic cold blasts will continue marching through the Plains, Midwest, South and East, culminating in the coldest air of the season early next week.
The first snowflakes of the season are expected to fall across the Northeast as an Alberta clipper system moves in to the region.[/caption]

The Weather Channel

The Adirondacks, as well as the Green and White Mountains across interior New England “would be the most likely candidates for a couple of inches of snow as this system passes through,” AccuWeather said.

Walker noted that northern Maine could even see 6 to 12 inches of snow as the storm passes through.