New York City Light Snow Final Call
02/16/24 10:12am ET
Good morning everyone. We continue to watch a very compact system that’ll scoot well south of the New York City area, bringing light to moderate snow (possibly a brief period of heavy snow) to parts of the Mid-Atlantic and extreme southern areas of the Northeast. New York City and Long Island will get in on some of the action, but it’ll be very light and of no consequence; especially travel-wise since it’s the weekend.
Meanwhile, the southern component of this system will get hung up along the Gulf (again), and bring some heavy rain and thunderstorms to the Gulf Coast and especially Florida. I think at this point, points west of Florida will be spared the worst as far as rain and storms, but Florida itself could be in line for another round of severe weather. As a wave of low pressure forms when our batch of moisture approaches Florida, it could have enough convection and shear to spawn some embedded severe storms containing large hail, gusty winds, and isolated tornadoes. The timeline looks to be some time between late morning Sunday and Sunday evening.