New York City residents should prepare for an arctic cold front bringing gusty winds, followed by several opportunities for light snow in the coming days, according to AccuWeather forecasts.<\/p>\n
AccuWeather senior meteorologist Chad Merrill told the Advance\/SILive.com that an arctic cold front will move through the area on Thursday, bringing \u201ca brief period of some gusty winds\u201d that could surpass 40 miles per hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe front coming in Thursday has the best opportunity to produce those gusts in excess of 40 miles per hour,\u201d Merrill said.<\/p>\n
The high winds could potentially impact travel on Staten Island\u2019s bridges, which sometimes implement restrictions during windy conditions. <\/p>\n
Following Thursday\u2019s front, Staten Islanders might see their first snowflakes of the season, though any snowfall is not expected to stick around for long.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere could be a few flurries that make it in to the New York area very early on Saturday, but there wouldn\u2019t be any snow accumulation with it,\u201d Merrill explained. \u201cIt would be just a couple of flurries here and there overnight Friday into early Saturday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
The greatest chance for accumulating snow comes early next week, according to the meteorologist.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarly next week, there is some opportunity, once we get into (Dec.) 9, 10 and 11, for at least a couple of snow showers to make it into the New York City area with these cold fronts,\u201d Merrill said.<\/p>\n
While individual snow events next week may be light, they could add up to measurable accumulation, according to the meteorologist.<\/p>\n
In general, what we\u2019re looking at is the potential by late next week for perhaps about a half an inch to an inch of snow, and that would be kind of collective from these couple of systems coming through,\u201d Merrill noted. \u201cThe event early next week has the best opportunity to produce some accumulation.\u201d <\/p>\n
The combination of cold temperatures and precipitation could create hazardous travel conditions on Staten Island roads early next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarly next week, there\u2019s a better opportunity for a couple of slippery spots between Monday afternoon and Thursday,\u201d Merrill warned. \u201cDue to the cold nature of the air coming in, there could be some issues with some of the pavement being a little bit slippery.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Thursday\u2019s front may produce a few flurries on Staten Island, Merrill said the \u201cmore meaningful snow showers would be back off to the west\u201d toward Albany, which would \u201chave a better chance for snow causing slippery travel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The weather pattern bringing these cold fronts and snow chances is being driven by what meteorologists call an active \u201cpolar jet stream,\u201d which will continue to \u201cdrive cold air into the east\u201d in the coming days, according to Merrill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City residents should prepare for an arctic cold front bringing gusty winds, followed by several opportunities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-58780","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\/58780","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=58780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}