NYC Weather Update – Jan 28, 2019

This week starts off quiet, and cold with sunny skies today. Tomorrow brings a mess of rain/snow mix, rain, then possibly ending with snow leading into Wednesday. A blast of Arctic air lies behind the storm system bringing this precipitation, with low temperatures plummeting into the single digits overnight into Thursday. The Arctic chill stay in place until the weekend.

Rest of today – sunny, with some scattered high clouds. Temperatures around freezing. Overnight lows in the upper-20s.

Tuesday – the timing of the next storm system to affect us, at this time, points to a period of rain/snow mix starting in the late morning Tuesday. A warm front should induce enough warm advection to raise temperatures into the low-40s. That will allow for a transition to all rain in the city until the overnight hours when temperatures are forecast to fall below freezing into the upper-20s. A period of all snow should follow.

Wednesday – periods of heavy snow squalls are possible before the storm finally clears out. At this time, forecasters are calling for about 1″ of snow accumulation starting Tuesday night for NYC. If the forecast trends colder, we could see some more snow, but no blockbuster amounts either way. High temperatures Wednesday should rise to around freezing. On the cold back side of the passing storm, Arctic air will swing into the region. Overnight lows are forecast to only be in the single digits going into Thursday morning.

Weather Prediction Center surface forecast for 7PM Wednesday

Thursday – frigid day in store with Arctic high pressure in control. Sunny skies but temperatures only expected to reach into the mid-teens. Overnight lows into Friday will stay chilly, only around 10°F.

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