{"id":471631,"date":"2025-12-25T23:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:10:16","slug":"nyc-region-braces-for-fast-moving-snow-storm-friday-into-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471631\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC region braces for ‘fast-moving’ snow storm Friday into Saturday:"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers are in store for a belated white Christmas<\/a> \u2014 with a \u201creasonable worst-case scenario\u201d of up to 10 inches by early Saturday afternoon, weather experts warned Thursday.<\/p>\n

Forecasters are expecting the snow to wallop Gotham starting late Friday afternoon into Saturday \u2013 just in time to cause \u201chazardous\u201d post-holiday travel delays and plenty of messy headaches for the gift-return crowd.<\/p>\n

Forecasters are expecting snow to start walloping Gotham starting late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

A winter storm watch will take effect for New York City \u2014 as well as northeast New Jersey, New York\u2019s lower Hudson Valley and Long Island \u2014 on Friday at 4 p.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

The flurries are expected to become heavier into the evening as temperatures drop into the high 20s, the weather service said.<\/p>\n

The agency said it expects total snow accumulations to measure between 4 to 8 inches for the metro region through early Saturday afternoon, though a \u201creasonable worst-case scenario\u201d of up to 10 inches is still on the table.<\/p>\n

About an inch of snow an hour is possible, though there\u2019s still a \u201clow\u201d chance of up to 2 inches per hour in heavier snow bands, the weather service said.<\/p>\n

Either way, \u201chazardous travel from snow-covered roads\u201d is expected.<\/p>\n

The expected \u201cfast-moving\u201d storm has a \u201chigh likelihood of producing enough snow to require shoveling and plowing in the New York City metro area,\u201d AccuWeather noted in a Thursday afternoon update.<\/p>\n

The region should brace for \u201cmajor slowdowns on roads and at airports,\u201d AccuWeather warned, with senior meteorologist Tyler Roys adding that the \u201cfast-moving storm will pack a punch in the Northeast right after Christmas.<\/p>\n

Meteorologists said they don\u2019t expect the snowfall to paralyze the city, but it will be a \u201cpain in our butts\u201d in terms of travel. Yoav Ginsburg\/Zuma \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like a 3- to 6-inch snowfall for the area coming probably very late tomorrow into tomorrow night,\u201d AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines told The Post on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve got errands to do during the day \u2013 returning presents or whatever \u2013 or even traveling, I think for the most part you\u2019re OK. After 3 or 4 p.m. tomorrow, that\u2019s when you start worrying about some snow coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n

A winter storm watch takes affect for the Big Apple at 4 p.m. Friday. Yoav Ginsburg\/Zuma \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

Kines predicted \u201cpoor traveling conditions\u201d and delays both on the road and at the airports starting around rush hour late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t envision this as a storm that\u2019s going to shut the city down and all that, but it will be a pain in our butts in terms of travel,\u201d Kines said. <\/p>\n

About an inch of snow \u2014 or even up to 2 inches \u2014 an hour is possible. Paul Martinka for NY Post<\/p>\n

Acting city Department of Sanitation Commissioner Javier Lojan has told The Post his agency launched preparations \u201cwell in advance of this storm, and we are ready for whatever comes our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DSNY warned in an X post that delays to Friday trash collections \u201care to be expected as we work to pick up material and prepare vehicles for snow operations at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The last time New York City saw a similar snow forecast was in February when roughly 3 inches of snow dropped on the boroughs, Kines said.<\/p>\n

Travel conditions should improve Saturday, when the snow is slated to taper off by daybreak, the meteorologist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of Saturday, it\u2019ll just be a cloudy day,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers are in store for a belated white Christmas \u2014 with a \u201creasonable worst-case scenario\u201d of up…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[48928,1166,5229,22278,5248,405,403,7619,5226,5225,5228,5227,71178,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-471631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-accuweather","9":"tag-air-travel","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-holiday-travel","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-life","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-snow","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}