A coastal storm is expected to batter the New York City region and Long Island with strong winds and heavy snow Friday night and Saturday morning. Forecasts are starting to settle on as much as a foot of snow for the New York City area.
Mayor Eric Adams is expected to brief the press on storm preparations Friday afternoon. The sanitation department issued a snow alert, effective at 4 p.m. Friday when the real precipitation is expected to begin. Snow is expected to fall through the night and into Saturday afternoon.
The ultimate shape of the storm depends on complex variables as several fronts are combining to produce it. While, with snowfall forecasts upwards of 12 inches, the five boroughs are right on its western border where a few small changes in the weather could mean a big difference to people on the ground.
“A shift to the west by 25 miles could bring that heavier snow right into the city, a shift to the east by 25 miles could result in even less amounts,” Argianas said. For Long Island residents, that could mean potential power outages due to heavy winds taking down electrical lines.One of the reasons the storm has been so difficult to predict is because of changing weather patterns due to climate change – and some researchers say similar, hard-to-predict storms could become more common in the future. That’s because a
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