Merry Christmas to all!
We’ve issued a First Alert Weather Day for Friday evening into Saturday morning due to accumulating snow that could be heavy at times.
Despite some flurries in our region earlier this morning, Christmas 2025 will not be recorded as a White Christmas.
It will go down as a Christmas Day that features a mix of sun and clouds, with highs in the mid 40s. Winds will start to increase by the late afternoon hours, gusting to 30 mph at times.
Those winds will signal the arrival of another cold blast for tonight. Lows will dip into the lower 20s for the city and points south, while teens will be common north of the city. Wind chills will range from the teens into the single digits.
Rolling into Friday, clear skies will quickly cloud over in advance of a significant winter storm that will bring widespread impacts to the Tri-State Region from Friday evening into Saturday morning.
With highs only in the upper 20s to low 30s, the main impacts would mainly be heavy snow. Some mixing with sleet and freezing rain is possible well to the south and west of the city. Thankfully, high winds are not anticipated to be an issue with this storm.
Forecast model data continues to suggest that a general 4–8-inch snowfall is likely with this system. Areas to the north may see higher totals, while areas to the south may see less. As everyone knows, substantial snowfall in and around New York City has been hard come by for the last several years. If the 4–8-inch range forecast verifies, it would be the most snow in the city since late January 2022, when a strong coastal storm put down 8.5 inches in Central Park.
Breaking It Down:
4 p.m. – 7 p.m Friday…