Partly sunny skies and temperatures just below freezing are in Long Island’s Monday forecast before clouds thicken with a 50% chance of snow in the evening and more possible later in the week.
A quick snow squall passed through Long Island after 3 p.m. Sunday, setting the tone for the week ahead, the National Weather Service said.
Temperatures will dip into the mid-20s Sunday night with wind chills in the lower teens, Weather Service meteorologist Jay Engle said.
Monday will be cold, with a high of 31 degrees under partly sunny skies.
“Martin Luther King Day will be the coldest day of winter so far,” Engle said.
Tuesday could bring 2 to 3 inches of snow to Long Island. There’s an 80% chance, mainly between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., according to the Weather Service.
Wednesday and Thursday are the only days this week without snow in the forecast, but temperatures will continue to hover at or below freezing.
“We’re going to average 5 to 7 [degrees] below normal,” Engle said. After dark, the low will dip into the high teens or low 20s both nights.
Cold weather is impacting most of the country, the Weather Service reported, with an “arctic blast” bringing dangerous wind chills to the Rocky Mountain region, and freezing temperatures extending from the West Coast to the Northeast and even reaching into parts of the South.
New York State officials are dealing with a dangerous lake-effect snowstorm impacting Erie County Sunday. Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a full travel ban for passenger vehicles in that county to allow plows to clear roads overnight.
Snowfall totals of 1 to 2 feet are expected in areas near Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, including Buffalo, with localized totals of up to 3 feet possible.
“Weather will be going downhill through the day in Western New York, bringing potentially life-threatening blizzard conditions,” Hochul wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Sunday morning. “My team is closely monitoring and is ready to assist.”
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