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NEW YORK CITY – New Yorkers bracing for winter can expect a reprieve from extreme, prolonged freezing this year.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a> forecasts a season characterized by above-normal temperatures and slightly below-average precipitation and snowfall for New York City, along with its surrounding counties.<\/p>\n “Above normal is relative,” the Almanac reminds readers. “While it won\u2019t be as cold as usual, it\u2019s still winter!”<\/p>\n Last winter, one major snow storm brought over 18 inches to parts of New York City and more than 27 inches to the surrounding area.<\/p>\n Timeline:<\/p>\n Don’t put away your winter gear just yet. The Almanac predicts several specific windows where winter will strike the New York City region the hardest.<\/p>\n Biggest temperature drops: Early to mid-December, early to mid-January, and both early and late February.Prime snow chances: Late November, early and mid-January, early and late February, and late March. What\u2019s shaping the forecast <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The Old Farmer’s Almanac says these signs of the season are already appearing, and helped them shape this year’s winter outlook:<\/p>\n Return of El Ni\u00f1o: The transition to a strong El Ni\u00f1o means warmer Pacific waters are altering the jet stream, largely shielding the East Coast from persistent deep freezes.Wildcard Polar Vortex: Despite the mild baseline, a southward disruption of the Polar Vortex could funnel punishing, short-lived Arctic air directly into New York.Shifting Sun and Sea: Solar Cycle 25 is weakening, which removes a warming variable from the atmosphere. Simultaneously, high-altitude wind shifts (the QBO) and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole could inject sudden moisture and storm activity into the Pacific jet stream, eventually reaching the East Coast. <\/p>\n The Source: Information from this article was sourced from the Old Farmer’s Almanac Winter Weather Forecast 2026\u20132027.<\/p>\n New York City<\/a>Weather<\/a>Winter Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY – New Yorkers bracing for winter can expect a reprieve from extreme, prolonged freezing this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,56,63,618,133,5820],"class_list":["post-340681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us","tag-weather","tag-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340681","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=340681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nyc-snow.jpg\")
When to expect cold and snow <\/p>\n