A Blast Of Winter Weather On The Way For CNY

But, farther south the snow never really materializes well, so a coating to half an inch is all we see in areas south of 70 where it snows, and a large part of southern OH may see no snow.

“Freezing rain expected.” the NWS says.

Environment Canada said surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery.

“Accumulations of snow 1 to 3 inches, and accumulation of ice from 0.03” up to around a tenth of an inch of ice. “A few tenths of an inch of snow and sleet accumulation are possible before the transition to freezing rain”.

The downfall is going to ease off as Friday progresses but another system is expected to arrive that evening and stick around on Saturday, Dec. 23.

SATURDAY: Areas of fog with occasional rain. A second system will swing through and bring wintry weather Christmas Eve Night into Christmas Day. 1 inch is more likely downtown and east of Denver.

Thanks to some Christmas Eve snow, we might wake up to a white Christmas in the Lower Hudson Valley. Wind chill values between 20 and 30. It will continue to push east before it wraps up this afternoon.

The advisory begins at 5:00 p.m. Thursday and lasts until 9:00 a.m. Friday. Cloudy, with a low around 33. Northeast wind will swing around to the northwest today, but remain light.

Behind the front, winds will turn northeasterly and increase to between 7 and 10 miles per hour.

The messy weather comes as the American Automobile Association is predicting 107.3 million Americans will travel by planes, trains, automobiles and other modes of transportation between Saturday and January 1. Precipitation has been breaking out well north of this front, in fact so far north that it’s been confined to mainly up-state NY and the Great Lakes.

AlbertaCalgary, you’ve got a possible flurry headed your way on Saturday, otherwise things should be partly sunny and breezy. North wind 3 to 7 miles per hour. Favorable lake-effect snow areas around the Great Lakes also have a moderate to high chance each year of waking up to snow on Christmas. Chance of precipitation is 70 percent.

With snow already on the ground and more to come, the odds of a white Christmas are “looking pretty good”, Brown said. The overnight high is expected to be 32 degrees on Christmas night.