New Yorkers can expect another blast of wintry weather Tuesday as a new storm expected to drop up to 3 inches of snow on the ground bears down on the Northeast.
The National Weather Service said temperatures will remain near the freezing mark overnight, and the snow could start any time after dawn – just in time to make a mess of the morning rush hour.
“Enough snow will fall to make roads slushy and slippery around Manhattan and to have to shovel and plow in the surrounding boroughs and suburbs.
Flight delays are likely, due to de-icing operations and slippery runways,” senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said on AccuWeather.com.
“The snow will last an average of six to eight hours and will reach from Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia, to Hartford, Conn., Providence, R.I., and Boston.”
Nationally, another storm left hundreds of thousands without power and forced the cancellation of thousands of flights Sunday and Monday as it moved toward the Northeast, making a mess of Monday morning’s commute.
New York City’s sanitation department issued a “snow alert” starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday, with personnel getting equipment and supplies ready.
Sanitation is coordinating its snow clearing efforts with the Office of Emergency Management and the city DOT.
While the city itself is expected to get 3 inches at most, areas north and west of Manhattan could get more snow – from 3 to 6 inches, Sosnowski said.
The weather will turn drier on Wednesday and remain that way through the week, with highs in the upper 20s to low 30s through Friday.
But another snowstorm could arrive during the coming weekend, forecasters warned.
Winter is still nearly two weeks away, but try telling that to Mother Nature.
The wintry weather was responsible for a 50-car pileup on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Sunday that shut down the highway for seven hours.
That chain reaction started when a driver got out of his car after a minor accident and then was struck and killed himself.
A 20-car crash early Monday closed southbound lanes of Interstate 95 for two hours near Greenwich, Conn.