Snow arriving overnight; could mean tricky Friday morning commute

“You generally do see a gap there, but this year I would say we’ve seen more extremes”, he said.

The NWS forecasts a 100 percent chance of snow Thursday with daytime accumulation of about three inches.

The blue is snow and green is rain.

Thursday as expected to also be warm and sunny with temperatures reaching 50 degrees, according to the weather service. Forecast models are now showing a plowable snow for most of us. “The heaviest snow will occur between about 6am and noon”. Snow squalls are forecast north of the Capital Region. Another round of snow is expected on Tuesday, when a “sizable storm” could fall during an 18- to 24-hour window, Miller said. We’ll see if that happens again.

“It looks like it will start out as rain after midnight, then change to a snowy mix about 2 a.m.”, Meola said. “There can be up to an inch or two of accumulation, though that accumulation is most likely to be on colder surfaces, such as vehicle tops, picnic tables, things of that sort”.

By Saturday the winter storm will be long gone but near freezing temperatures are expected to remain through the weekend. At least it will be dry.

Temperatures are expected to hit the mid-30s today before plummeting into the low teens tonight, according to the weather service.

Power outages are minimal on Friday morning as are delays on flights in-and-out of Newark Liberty, JFK and LaGuardia Airports. High near 36. Wind chill values between 25 and 30.

Monday: A 70 percent chance of snow, high near 34.

“Given the highly anomalous cold in place before the storm and potential phasing, this system bears close watching in the coming days”, forecasters at the weather service’s Baltimore/Washington office wrote. “Residents are asked to stay off public roads and limit travel”.