Step aside without a fight. Thats whats happening tonight. We have the icing continuing. Thankfully new york city, heavy rain, washing away about an inch, inch and a half of snow. Were still 2 degrees above the freezing mark. Observe snowfall a little bit more in south shore of nassau county, 1 to 3 inches from the city north and west. Now our concern, freezing rain advisory, interior new jersey goes till 2 00 in the morning. Winter weather advisories for the far northern suburbs. Flood concerns with a gusty southeast wind coming in tomorrow. Heavy rain in new york city. Its heavy over lower westchester. Long island as well. Northern westchester in to northern new jersey its freezing rain and snow leaving the catskills right now. Look, only 32 in newark. 34 white plains. 23 in sussex. Mid 40s in belmar. Its going to take about 4 00 in the morning for the suburbs to get in. There will be a lull of precipitation then more heavy gusty winds come in tomorrow afternoon. Icing north and west
There. This is what the radar looks like right now. Bright whites and steadier snows west of philly, a few snows starting to get into mercer county, a couple of snow showers over Southern Ocean county. That whole band of snowfall right there and rain is starting to lift to the north and thats what we are counting on to produce our snowfall during the overnight. To be honest with you, hasnt looked very impressive through the afternoon hours in terms of the snowfall it can produce. If we look at our shortrange futurecast this is what it looks like, the snow showers are going to be lifting through Central New Jersey during the evening hours, so high 78, garden state parkway, we can see slippery spots and some snowy coatings across the area. Then during the overnight the area of snow is going to expand into the north and then its going to peek and start to break up and retreat toward the morning hours. So instead of just being sort of a smooth band of snow, probably patchy snow showers and
Developing right now, two men shot, one of them killed. Now an active search for the gunman on the run. But first, from one extreme to another. It was about to snow tonight and now new worries. Ice and heavy rain. We have several reports tonight. We begin with meteorologist lee goldberg at the weather wall. The coldest air in more than 20 years wasnt just going to step aside without a fight. Thats whats happening tonight. We have the icing continuing. Thankfully new york city, heavy rain, washing away about an inch, inch and a half of snow. Were still 2 degrees above the freezing mark. Observe snowfall a little bit more in south shore of nassau county, 1 to 3 inches from the city north and west. Now our concern, freezing rain advisory, interior new jersey goes till 2 00 in the morning. Winter weather advisories for the far northern suburbs. Flood concerns with a gusty southeast wind coming in tomorrow. Heavy rain in new york city. Its heavy over lower westchester. Long island as well.
Were going to turn now to the weather. Youve got snow falling outside. Mayor bill de blasio issued a travel advisory in new york city. It goes through tomorrow. Hes asking people right now to be extra careful. Governor Chris Christie in new jersey tweeting 20 minutes ago asking people in that state to stay off the roads. Road cam 7 is out checking things out. Right now this is the view in the cross bronx express way. People are taking it slow in nassau county. At the airports there are delays and cancellations here and across the country. Nationwide more than 1100 flights have been canceled. Meteorologist lee goldberg is tracking it all. Hes live on the upper west side. Were just not wasting a flake today. After that frigid weekend, everything sticking. New york city, its rare to see the snow stick this quickly. This is whats happening. And weekend snow for the next hour or two before sleet and ice mix in, eventually over to rainfall. Youre looking at the toll plaza in the George Washi
Were less than 36 hours removed from subzero temperatures. Freezing in islip. 34 in belmar right now. So the ocean temperatures, 40. Thats taking care of the coastline but the inland members will be much slower to come up. You see how were mixing over to rain and freezing rain in new york city around 7 00. Were still going strong with snow north and west. That will change by 10 00 or 11 00. We see on Eyewitness News it will be mix north of i84 and during the overnight hours we all go to rain. Its light rain tomorrow morning and pouring tomorrow afternoon. Well have more on that timing. Winter weather advisory until midnight for the far northern suburbs till 7 a. M. Gives you an idea that cold air is going to be tough to scour out. Its a windswept soaking tomorrow morning. Snowfall amounts, inch, inch and a half in new york city. 1 to 3 inches north and west. A lot of this going to get washed away by all the soaking rain coming in. Long climb back. More on the accuweather forecast in a