New York’s Staten Island. A clipper storm that has moved southeast from Canada is expected to dump several inches of snow on parts of Upstate New York.
According to the National Weather Service, a clipper storm is a swift storm that moves from Alberta, Canada, across the Great Lakes and enters the United States.
According to Dave Dombek, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather, snow is already falling upstate and is expected to do so through Wednesday evening as of 4:15 p.m. Tuesday.
The worst of this accumulation is predicted to concentrate along the Great Lakes, which may come as no surprise.
Between six and twelve inches of snow might fall on areas south of Buffalo and those downwind of Lake Erie. According to Dombek, people living east of Lake Ontario, such as those in Watertown and the Tug Hill Plateau, could anticipate comparable snowfall totals in that range.
Tonight marks the arrival of the next phase of winter weather, which will last until Wednesday. With lake-enhanced precipitation (and higher snowfall amounts) predicted east of Lakes Erie and Ontario, widespread snow (often 3-5″ of snowfall) will arrive in WNY at around 5 PM today and move from west to east.tweet.com/ypzSvYhiTq
The Capital District and Central New York, among other locations north of Poughkeepsie, should expect a general snow cover of one to three inches outside of these zones, according to Dombek.
It is possible that this clipper system might produce a layer of snow in places as far south as Danbury, Connecticut, and somewhere between White Plains and Poughkeepsie.
The odds of snow in New York City
Late tomorrow (Tuesday), just before dawn, there may be a few flurries or a quick snow shower, but it will likely be so short and so light that many people won’t even notice it, Dombek added.
Given that temperatures are expected to peak at 47 degrees on Wednesday, Dombek stated that he thinks precipitation would fall in the form of rain if the system attempts to bring showers to New York City.
“If it does anything at all, it will be a little too mild down near the ground for any snowflakes to survive,” Dombek continued.
In the event that snow showers or a snow flurry outbreak occurred in the city, it would occur between 5 and 8 p.m. However, Dombek pointed out that given the moderate weather, roads would be good even though this possibility is not out of the question.
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