Winter Weather Advisory for snow and ice
Winter precipitation is expected to move into the region Monday night and continue into Tuesday, tapering off Tuesday evening. The highest amounts of snow and ice are expected across the interior where there will be a longer period of wintry precipitation. Closer to the coast, the period of snow and wintry mix will be less with the NYC Metro and Long Island regions just confined to Monday evening.
Travel impacts will be most likely for the areas under the winter weather advisory across the interior where temperatures will be below freezing and roads are expected to become slippery from snow and ice.
Forecast Total Snow Accumulations:
For the interior, including the rest of Northeast NJ, the Lower Hudson Valley as well as Southern CT: 1 to around 2 inches.
For the NYC Metro and Long Island as well as Hudson, Eastern Essex, and Eastern Union counties in NJ: 1/2 to around 1 inch.
Forecast Total Ice Accumulations:
For the interior, including the rest of Northeast NJ, the Lower Hudson Valley as well as Southern CT: Up to around a tenth of an inch.
For the NYC Metro and Long Island as well as Hudson, Essex, and Union counties in NJ: No ice accumulation is expected.
Forecast Timeline
Monday night:
The snow becomes likely across western parts of Long Island, NYC, and Northeast NJ in the evening and will begin mixing with rain. The precipitation gradually spreads northward across the remainder of the region during mid to late evening and will be a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain. Overnight, plain rain is expected in and around NYC as well as Long Island while the wintry mix remains for the rest of the region. The wintry mix will become mainly sleet and freezing rain by early Tuesday.
Tuesday:
For NYC, Long Island, as well as Hudson, Union, and much of Essex counties in NJ, plain rain continues throughout the day. For the interior, a wintry mix, mainly sleet and freezing rain, will gradually transition to mainly rain from south to north across a part of the interior during the afternoon. A wintry mix including snow returns late Tuesday afternoon into the early evening. All precipitation tapers off by mid to late evening.
Stay tuned to our forecast at http://weather.gov/nyc for the latest updates and for any changes to our forecast.