{"id":80989,"date":"2025-12-25T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:31:21","slug":"4-8-inches-of-snow-possible-as-winter-storm-watch-issued-for-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80989\/","title":{"rendered":"4-8 inches of snow possible as winter storm watch issued for Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/weather\/\" title=\"Navigate to Weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a>Updated: Dec. 24, 2025, 4:48 p.m.|Published: Dec. 24, 2025, 4:47 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Snow possible Xmas Weekend\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4S2ZOWQ2R5DDDJ7EYPBXL2EILI.jpg\"  \/>The Island is expected to be hit with between 4 and 8 inches of snow beginning Friday, Dec. 26 and carrying into Saturday, Dec. 27. Here, a Department of Sanitation plow makes its way down Victory Boulevard in Tompkinsville.(Advance\/SILive.com | Tom Wrobleski)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TH4NMAXU4FBSZC7SI4YE66N5FM\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for Staten Island and surrounding areas beginning Friday afternoon and continuing through Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TWCUFQPDENFXHLAMPNS3Y6JWFU\">Heavy snow is expected across portions of southern Connecticut, northeast New Jersey and southeast New York, with total accumulations between 4 and 8 inches expected, according to the weather service\u2019s New York office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2KCLCP37WBHRPDSJVQRKLTSNEY\">The National Weather Service issued the watch around 1 p.m. Wednesday. Officials warn that slippery road conditions are likely and may impact the Friday evening commute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2FGQYO6HFVH2DOS4IW6DJMJ5EU\">Residents are advised to monitor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/okx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">latest forecasts<\/a> for updates on the developing weather situation.<\/p>\n<p>Scott R. Axelrod is a breaking news reporter for the Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com. He covers a range of topics from crime and trending entertainment news to profiling the borough&#8217;s most unique residents. He&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WeatherUpdated: Dec. 24, 2025, 4:48 p.m.|Published: Dec. 24, 2025, 4:47 p.m.The Island is expected to be hit with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-80989","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\/80989","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=80989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}