By now I am sure that most of you have heard the television and radio forecasters mentioning the possibility of snow this weekend.
A Nor'Easter will start making its way up the coast tonight and may bring with it a slushy coating of snow to the northern boroughs of our city Saturday night.
I know you are all thinking "But it's not cold enough to snow!", but as long as the cold (i.e. sub-freezing) air aloft is deep enough for snow crystals to survive the journey down to the surface without melting, you can get snow falling with surface temperatures above freezing.
The bulk of the storm just north and west of I-95 will be wet snow, but even in New York City rain will become mixed with or change over completely to wet snow Saturday evening as daytime tempertaures drop. The higher up you are, and farther away from the coast within the I-95 zone, the better the chance of not only wet snowflakes mixing in, but also a heavy accumulation of wet snow.
It looks like it wil shake out this way....
Saturday: Rain, mainly after 8am. High near 44. Breezy, with a northeast wind between 17 and 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Saturday Night: Rain then a chance of rain and snow. Low around 35. Breezy, with a north wind between 18 and 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
For us here in Broad Channel the rain, tides and colder tempertaures will be the major factors we will have to contend with.
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