The groundhog predicts more winter, but what does the National Weather Service and two longtime weather almanacs say?

Temperatures will max out at 23 degrees on Sunday –but it’ll actually feel much colder thanks to heavy winds. On Long Island, it’ll feel like single-digit temperatures because of the wind. Near the city,

Here’s the latest on scenarios, predictions and forecasts for a storm that could rapidly intensify into a bomb cyclone and bring snow to NYC and NJ this weekend.

The National Weather Service is projecting anywhere from 6 to 18 inches, while AccuWeather’s forecast is more conservative, calling for 6 to 8 inches.

The latest forecast puts Central Park at 12 inches of snow, and that’s still the highest snowfall seen there in several years. The last time New York’s weather station in the park saw more than a foot of snow from a single storm was in 2021.

ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) – Snow showers are around this morning along the Lake Ontario shoreline and may persist for much of the day. We have a light onshore flow and with this cold, that is all we need for any type of lake effect.

As millions of Americans hunker down for the winter storm, 19 states and Washington, D.C., have declared states of emergency.

The cold weather so far to grip New York, the Northeast and much of America has already proven deadly with reports of over 100 dead as the storm sweeps through