Dig out your mittens and dust off the boots, New Yorkers, because the city is likely to see the season’s first accumulation of snow this weekend.
The National Weather Service offices in New York and New Jersey on Friday issued winter weather advisories in effect from Saturday evening to early Sunday afternoon.
An advisory is a step short of a more serious warning or watch, meant to tell people that the weather could become hazardous.
Up to three inches of snow could fall in the city beginning late Saturday night, forecasters at the Weather Service said, with the steadiest amounts coming before sunrise on Sunday.
Similar totals are expected across parts of Delaware, New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, northeastern Maryland and Connecticut, with as much as four inches on Long Island.
Less snow is expected farther northwest from the coast, but forecasters cautioned that if the system moves differently than expected, those amounts could vary widely.
The snow is expected to taper off by Sunday afternoon, replaced by frigid air that will drop temperatures into the teens by Monday morning.
Bitter cold is expected to stick around through early next week.
New Yorkers who love snow have been disappointed the last few seasons.
In a normal winter, Central Park’s Belvedere Castle, the official National Weather Service measuring station for the city, will record nearly 24 inches of snow throughout the season.
Last year, barely more than a foot accumulated through the whole season, and even that was more than the seven and a half inches the year before, and the paltry 2.3 inches the year before that.
Between February 2022 and January 2024 the city went nearly two full years without meaningful snowfall.
Erin McCann is the senior editor for The Times’s weather team. She is based in San Francisco.
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