AccuWeather<\/a> meteorologist Peyton Simmers, a storm may impact the East Coast late next week and precipitation could fall in the form of snow.<\/p>\n\u201cRight now, the pattern\u2019s been quite volatile; it\u2019s been flipping a lot,\u201d he told the Advance\/SILive.com Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now we\u2019re in the midst of a warmup, right now, for New York City compared to what it\u2019s been,\u201d added Simmers. \u201cAnd then as we start to look into next week, there is signs that the cold air is going to return back to the Northeast and there is potential late next week that there could be a storm around that could give some snow to the East Coast, but a lot has to come together for that to unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n
In order for this storm to form, two pieces of energy must come across the U.S. and \u201cphase\u201d together. If those two systems \u201cmiss each other\u201d and fail to phase, then the chance of snow is unlikely, according to Simmers.<\/p>\n
Additional atmospheric factors also play a role in determining whether or not a snow storm will form, the meteorologist explained.<\/p>\n
Although the chance of a snow storm may be low, \u201cthe chance is there,\u201d Simmers said.<\/p>\n
One thing that does seem like it will work in the storm\u2019s favor is the return of cold temperatures.<\/p>\n
Typically, the average high temperature for this time of year is around 40 degrees in New York City. Wednesday featured a high of nearly 50 degrees, Simmers explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re at least 9-10 degrees above historical average for this time of the year,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
Next week, Simmers foresees temperatures nearing their average for January, but they could even dip below average.<\/p>\n
Although temperatures will drop, they may comparably not be as cold as they were in December, said Simmers.<\/p>\n
Even if the storm does manage to come together next week, Simmers is unable to estimate just how much snow will fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really don\u2019t know at this point [snowfall estimates], because even if it phases, it still has to take the precise track to hit the east coast cities,\u201d added Simmers. \u201cBecause it can stay farther off shore and then, you know, everybody gets next to nothing, or it can go a little bit more inland and rain can be an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Although temperatures in New York City on Thursday may be comparatively mild, wintry conditions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-94763","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\/94763","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=94763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}