STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Lingering snow has plagued New York City residents since Winter Storm Fern delivered over a foot to Staten Island.
While crews continue to plow snow throughout the five boroughs, the weather has simply not been cooperating; freezing temperatures have made any hope of natural melting nothing but a wishful dream. However, later next week, some warmer air is forecast to finally arrive in the city and assist in melting down this snow.
Before any relief does arrive, meteorologists are monitoring the potential for up to an inch of snow and a subsequent Arctic blast this weekend.
As city residents contend with temperatures that will feel below zero, due in part to wind gusts of up to 40 mph, record warmth will warm up the western U.S., according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines.
“Some of that air is going to move into the middle part of the country in the early part of next week and the hope is — that at least for a day or two — at least a little bit of that warmer air gets into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast,” he added.
That warming is expected to arrive in the middle or later part of next week.
“We can get some temperatures, you know, maybe close to normal, which would be lower 40s and I guess it’s not out of the question that one of those days the second half of next week, that temperatures actually get higher than what they should be at this time of year,” Kines told the Advance/SILive.com.