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National Weather Service says Tuesday s storm is tracking further north, creating a very challenging forecast since this warm nose (a wedge of above-freezing air that settles above subfreezing temperatures at the surface, causing any snow that falls through it to change to rain) will likely allow the snow to mix or change over to sleet and/or freezing rain.
National Weather Service
The northern Finger Lakes Region to the Catskills northward towards the NY Thruway corridor and the southern Tug Hill Region expects
3-5 inches of snow, with locally higher amounts possible as precipitation will remain as snow.
National Weather Service
Travel could be tricky in central and upstate New York. The National Weather Service has issued weather advisories and Lake Effect Snow warnings for a storm that could bring snow squalls with near white out conditions.
A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect from 1pm Friday through 1pm Saturday for Southern Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison and Southern Oneida counties.
Lake effect snow will be in Northern Oneida County until this afternoon. The snow then shifts further south across much of Central New York Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. However, On Friday: scattered snow squalls may stretch all the way down as far south as the Twin Tiers. Within a snow squall, total snow may only be about an inch or even less, but it can come very quickly with near white-out conditions.