NYC could be hit with eight inches of snow in another storm this week
Old Man Winter is still rearing his ugly head.
Another storm could dump about 8 inches of snow on the Big Apple amid bitterly cold temperatures this week, forecasters said.
Flurries are expected to start falling on the boroughs Thursday morning and continue through Friday, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Adam Sadvary.
Four to 8 inches are tentatively expected, but that depends on the path of the low-pressure system, according to the forecaster.
“There is a lot of concern as to how far south the system is going to be,” he said. “And that is going to have an impact on how much snow the city really gets to see.”
While earlier predictions indicated that the city could see up to a foot, Sadvary said that’s “a low possibility right now.”
“Those longer-range models have kind of been trending at keeping this further south,” he said. “It’s a greater chance that if the forecast were to change, it would change to a decreased amount over an increased event.”
Higher amounts are likely to fall in parts of New Jersey — especially the southern part of the state, according to Sadvary.
The storm comes on the tail of another system Tuesday that is only expected to dump a coating to an inch of snow on New York City. That storm is likely to end by the late afternoon, the forecaster said.
Meanwhile, temperatures for the rest of this week are set to fall about 10 degrees below normal for early February. While the mercury usually rises to around 40 or 41 degrees during that period, high temperatures will only reach the low 30s or upper 20s.
Another wintry blast could roll in by the weekend or early next week, but Sadvary said it’s too soon to tell how much snow could fall.
With a total of 32.5 inches, the city has already seen twice the normal amount of snow for this time of year, and more than six times last year’s measly 4.8 inches.