N.Y. weather: Coldest temperatures of season to hit NYC: What to know about next Arctic blast

New York’s Staten Island. It’s going to be chilly in New York City this week, so bring layers.

The coldest weather of the season is expected to arrive in the city starting Sunday night, even though inhabitants of the five boroughs have already experienced below-normal temperatures this winter.

Bob Larson, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather, stated that the most of next week’s week on the 20th, especially the first half of the week, Monday through Wednesday, is expected to be frigid and perhaps the coldest we’ve experienced so far this winter. When it truly boils down to it, we haven’t had any severe cold, even though we have had a lot of cold weather that has persisted.

According to Larson, New York City has not experienced a single day with a high in the 20s this January. According to the Advance/SILive.com weather station, the lowest high we have experienced so far was on January 8, when the temperature on Staten Island reached 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

But according to Larson, the city has experienced several teen-level lows in the first part of the month. A cold low of 18 degrees was recorded by the Advance/SILive.com weather station on January 7.

According to Larson, this time around, we’re expecting two or even three days with highs in the 20s and two or three nights with lows in the teens, with some suburbs possibly experiencing single digit temperatures. Furthermore, I’m not reciting wind chills or RealFeel temperatures—these are genuine temperatures.

January usually has the lowest historical average highs of the year. According to Larson, these highs typically register in the upper 30s, perhaps as high as 38 or 39 degrees. The average nightly low, on the other hand, drops to about 26 degrees in the middle of the 20s.

Larson does not anticipate any historical records being broken by these low temperatures, even if they are well below average. At this time of year, record lows usually range from zero to six or seven degrees below zero.

With a high of just 21 degrees and a low of 13, the frigid air blast that hit New York City on December 22 set the season’s records.

With the air mass that will arrive next week, we have a decent chance of matching or surpassing that, Larson said.

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