Freezing rain and small accumulations of ice could hit northern parts of New Jersey and the southern Hudson Valley on Sunday night, meteorologists said.
The new winter weather threat followed several inches of snow that fell from Friday night into Saturday morning. Though the snowstorm blanketed the five boroughs, temperatures in New York City are expected to remain high enough Sunday to avoid wintery conditions.
“Temperatures along the immediate coast, including the NYC metro, are expected to inch just above freezing,” National Weather Service forecasters wrote Sunday. “When rain develops just after dark, [precipitation] here is expected to be mainly rain at onset.”
But north and northwest of the city, temperatures will be cold enough to create freezing rain and small amounts of ice, according to the National Weather Service. The highest chance of ice was in Orange and Putnam counties in New York, Warren and Morris counties in New Jersey and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.
The precipitation predicted for Sunday night is part of an expected wild swing in temperatures over 48 hours in the tristate area. Throughout Sunday and into Monday afternoon, temperatures were expected to slowly rise, reaching nearly 50 degrees in Central Park.
However, the warm front was predicted to be short-lived, with temperatures plummeting back into the low 30s by Monday evening and overnight into Tuesday.
Other areas of the nation were also dealing with winter weather on Sunday, as a snowstorm swept across the Great Plains, the Midwest and the Great Lakes. The storm brought blizzard conditions to some areas and was predicted to dump as much as two feet of snow in northern Michigan.
