STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City could see some snow this holiday weekend.
Two storms may potentially bring snow to the region over the course of two days, according to Tom Kines, an AccuWeather senior meteorologist.
The first system expected to bring precipitation to the area will be on Saturday.
While Kines foresees rain in the forecast, he told the Advance/SILive.com that “it’s not out of the question there could be some wet snow mixed in.”
However, given that high temperatures will be above freezing, near 40 degrees, Kines does not anticipate any significant snowfall.
“Even if there was some snow mixed in, I guess I highly doubt that it would cause any issues,” he said.
Kines does not believe Saturday’s storm will produce more than a quarter-inch of precipitation.
The other chance for precipitation comes late Sunday from a storm offshore traveling northeast.
“Right now it looks like it stays far enough away out over the ocean that it doesn’t bother us, but it’s something that bears watching and if it would move, it could track closer to the coast, then, you know we can get a period of snow here sometime later Sunday or maybe early Sunday night,” Kines explained.
As of Wednesday morning, Kines does not believe there will be any “major problems over the weekend.”
Of the two possibilities for precipitation, it’s the storm later in the weekend that Kines is most concerned about.
“Right now, as I said, we think that’s going to stay offshore” added Kines. “But, there’s always that chance that it does take a track closer to the coast and we do get snow.”
If that storm does track closer to the coast, temperatures will be near or below freezing and allow for snowfall accumulation, according to Kines.