Tuesday afternoon temperatures within the higher 50s round New York Metropolis – even 60 levels in a number of fortunate locations – will quickly get replaced by an arctic chill. Actually, we’ll see a number of the coldest temperatures of 2024 early subsequent week.
However afternoon temperatures received’t fall off a cliff. Moderately, they’ll stairstep down every day till we backside out within the 20s Sunday and Monday. Morning lows might be within the teenagers, near the 17-degree studying we marked on January seventeenth this yr – our coldest studying of the yr up to now for Central Park.
The cool-down additionally comes with a few probabilities for rain and/or snow. After a vivid begin to Wednesday, rain will transfer in in the course of the afternoon and linger in a single day.
It’s a quick-moving system, so rain totals received’t be excessive. Anticipate underneath a half-inch in any given location. No flooding, simply helpful rain to offset our persevering with drought.
Rain exits the world by the Thursday morning commute, however the chilly air continues to spill in.
A quick-moving clipper system races via the world Friday evening.
Early indications are that we might choose up a mixture of rain and snow from this – with a dusting of snow doable on the bottom in New York Metropolis by Saturday, due to the truth that the precipitation strikes via on the coldest time of day – when temperatures are near freezing. It’s not a assure, but it surely’s doable!
It’s this weekend that the arctic blast actually takes maintain of the tri-state. In a single day low temperatures will drop into the kids, so seize your warmest parka and have it prepared.
By Monday morning, temperatures within the metropolis might be round 16 levels. Final time this yr we even got here near that quantity was again on Jan. 17 once we bottomed out at 17 levels.
Fortunately, the brutal chilly is just not staying will us lengthy. By the center of subsequent week, temperatures are already again into the 40s, simply in time for Christmas and the beginning of Hanukkah.
