N.Y. weather: Meteorologist details winter chill, latest snow forecast for NYC

New York’s Staten Island. Mark Chenard, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said that although there is a chance that New York City may get its first detectable snowfall this weekend, you might not need to grab the snowblower and salt.

Chenard told the Advance/SILive.com that although the cold is undoubtedly coming later this week, the peak of it will actually occur on Sunday or Monday.

A low that is forming off the southeast coast is probably going to link up with a system that has been moving throughout the middle of the country and has the potential to bring snow. According to Chenard, there is a chance that rain on Friday night will result in a layer of snow on Saturday, even though the two systems’ effects on land don’t appear to be very strong.

All of this implies that the amount of snow that accumulates in the New York City area might eventually be between one and two inches, while Chenard notes that there is no assurance that locals would experience anything more than a dusting.

According to Chenard, it doesn’t appear that there will be much snowfall at this time; there will just be a little snowfall.

Chenard continued by explaining that temperatures are predicted to start to dip to the mid-30s on Friday and that once they drop below freezing on Friday night, they probably won’t be rising again until Tuesday evening.

The five boroughs might wake up to a few of inches of snow on Saturday, according to a previous model.

According to Chenard, it doesn’t appear that anyone will receive anything particularly serious at this time.