{"id":420785,"date":"2026-01-21T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420785\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:41:07","slug":"long-island-weather-forecasters-increasingly-confident-of-impactful-winter-storm-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/420785\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island weather: Forecasters increasingly confident of &#8216;impactful winter storm&#8217; Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service forecasters say they are increasingly confident the region will see an &#8220;impactful winter storm&#8221; Sunday into Monday that could bring moderate to heavy snowfall across portions of Long Island and the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p>In an alert early Wednesday, the weather service said it is continuing to monitor the increasing potential for a winter storm Sunday into Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters said it remains uncertain\u00a0where the heaviest snow will fall, but the storm could begin early\u00a0Sunday morning and last into Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the alert, forecasters expect serious cold conditions beginning Friday night into early next week with temperatures likely remaining well below freezing.<\/p>\n<p>Specific details on exact timing and amounts will become clearer over the next few days, forecasters said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, NWS forecasters in Upton said they were analyzing the tracks of <a class=\"nd-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/weather\/weekend-storm-long-island-dn6dhyvj\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two systems<\/a> moving into the area, potentially Saturday night into Monday to determine the most likely scenarios \u2014 this, based on AI-generated potentials and more traditional methods, such as projections based on climatology and probability.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters said Tuesday that because of the cold air in place this weekend, snowfall could exceed more than\u00a06 inches\u00a0with some areas approaching a foot.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Weather Service forecasters say they are increasingly confident the region will see an &#8220;impactful winter storm&#8221; Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453,2986],"class_list":["post-420785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}