New Yorkers are in store for a belated white Christmas — with a “reasonable worst-case scenario” of up to 10 inches by early Saturday afternoon, weather experts warned Thursday.
Forecasters are expecting the snow to wallop Gotham starting late Friday afternoon into Saturday – just in time to cause “hazardous” post-holiday travel delays and plenty of messy headaches for the gift-return crowd.
A winter storm watch will take effect for New York City — as well as northeast New Jersey, New York’s lower Hudson Valley and Long Island — on Friday at 4 p.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
The flurries are expected to become heavier into the evening as temperatures drop into the high 20s, the weather service said…