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NYC Cold Air Arrives & Tuesday's System Remains Unimpressive
Good morning everyone. Cold and blustery conditions have arrived on schedule and as promised, giving us a true winter feel this weekend. Meanwhile, Tuesday's system remains unimpressive to me, and I really don't see much happening, if anything at all. I'll go over it below, but this is simply not a powerful system and looks very weak trying to beat out high pressure.
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Look for mostly sunny skies today, gusty and blustery conditions, with highs near 30. Tomorrow, we go from windy to breezy, but we may still see some gusts in the 25mph range. Highs in the mid 30's.
Clouds will increase late on Monday, but not before a fairly sunny day. Temps will slowly creep up into the upper 30's for a very average, deep winter day for the NYC area.
Our forecast remains "complicated" in terms of what Tuesday will look like, but not in a major way impact-wise. Basically, the models have returned to the original idea that I saw early last week, with light precipitation possible in our area. The question is, does it really make it in before drying out? Does it remain snow? Or change to light rain.
We'll continue watching this, but I stress that this is a light event if it happens. The max potential of this system in our area at this moment is a dusting, to 2" of snow on the extreme end. That's if it doesn't change to light rain, and that's if the energy even gets into the area in the first place. The chance remains we wind up with nothing.
In the long range, there's a bigger system lurking behind Tuesday's system. We'll be watching this one closely, but don't want to get ahead of ourselves since Tuesday's system will have a bearing on what the late week one does. We have to see how deep high pressure builds back in behind Tuesday's system, to see if the other system gets suppressed to our south. This one definitely has more horsepower compared to Tuesday, but it's way too early to really discuss much on this.
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