AccuWeather<\/a> Senior Meteorologist Matt Benz told the Advance\/SILive.com that the ultimate track of the system will be determined, in part, by a fast-moving clipper storm emerging out of the western Great Lakes.<\/p>\nBenz called the system a \u201ckicker low\u201d and explained that if this storm strengthens enough and meets the \u201cpowerful low\u201d from the southern coast, it could \u201cgive the storm a boot at the coast\u201d and push it towards Bermuda.<\/p>\n
However, if the clipper misses the window to \u201ckick\u201d the developing low from the south, that will allow the nor\u2019easter to track further north toward Cape Cod, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Should the storm track towards Bermuda, the city will still see some wind, but may escape the snow. If the system takes a path towards Cape Cod, both snow and wind \u201cwould be on the table\u201d for the five boroughs.<\/p>\n
Benz told the Advance\/SILive.com that as of Tuesday, there is a \u201cmoderate risk\u201d the city will see a winter storm. If the nor\u2019easter does hit the city, impacts would begin late Saturday night and continue through Sunday; the worst conditions would be experienced on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s more or less kind of a 50-50 chance right now of it occurring,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Although Tuesday was too early for Benz to provide any snowfall estimates, he did say this storm could bring heavy winds to the city, particularly for those on the coast. Should the storm get close enough, wind gusts could potentially reach up to 60 mph.<\/p>\n
This combination of wind and snow would create visibility concerns in the city, Benz noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean we obviously saw visibility concerns just with the heavy snow this past weekend, but we really didn\u2019t see a lot of wind with it,\u201d said Benz. \u201cWhereas this one could be more wind which could blow that snow more around.\u201d<\/p>\n
If snow does fall this weekend, it would pile on top of the existing snow from Sunday\u2019s storm. As temperatures will remain below freezing throughout the week, any melting would be minimal.<\/p>\n
In addition to high winds, those along the coast may want to prepare for potential coastal flooding, as the storm will coincide with the full moon and astronomical high tide this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Meteorologists are monitoring the development of a nor\u2019easter capable of bringing heavy winds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-114265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}