Overview
- National Weather Service warnings cover New York City, northern New Jersey, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and southern Connecticut from late Friday into midday Saturday.
- Snow begins late afternoon and intensifies in the evening with peak rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour, then tapers Saturday morning.
- Forecasts call for roughly 5 to 9 inches across much of the Tri-State, with heavier bands possible north and lower totals where sleet mixes in south and west of the city.
- Philadelphia and parts of the Mid-Atlantic face a wintry mix, and western Pennsylvania is under an ice storm warning with up to 0.2 to 0.3 inches of icing.
- New York City activated its Winter Weather Emergency Plan, with sanitation crews pretreating roads and plows ready, as the broader system triggers warnings across multiple states and brings 1 to 3 feet at high elevations in the West.