Rain and Snow for NYC Metro Area Today and Tonight...Sun for Sunday!

This morning (Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009) the storm that we have been watching on the model runs this past week as spread a huge area of precipitation that extends from New England, across much of New York State, Pennsylvania, the entire Tri-State NYC region as well as across West Virginia, Virginia and Delaware/Maryland. Showers and thunderstorms are occurring across coastal North Carolina and southern Florida. This is a relatively large but not very strong coastal storm. There is a lot of moisture being produced but with a lack of a large amount of cold air, the area of heavy snow this storm will be produced will be limited to the Appalachians, northeast across interior New Jersey and interior eastern New England. At noon in NYC, the temperature is in the low 40s and it is raining. This evening, the rain should mix with and change to wet snow with less than one inch in the city, Long Island and coastal New Jersey with perhaps an inch or two (may three across higher elevations of New Jersey and interior Connecticut). The sun will be back on Sunday!

George Wright is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President of Wright Weather Consulting, Inc. a New York weather and air quality consulting company. Visit our web site at WrightWeather.com.