New York Starts Weekend Off With More Snowfall

NEW YORK (New York Daily News/TNS) — After nearly two years without any major snowfall, New Yorkers for the second time this week woke up to a wintry scene.

The precipitation began overnight Friday, coating Central Park with more than 2 inches of snow by early Saturday morning, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

“More snow is headed our way, New Yorkers,” Mayor Eric Adams said in an early-morning post on X. “Right now, all our teams are ready for whatever comes our way.”

As a result, the NWS issued a winter weather advisory for the entire city, urging residents in the Big Apple and beyond to use caution while driving and to be prepared for potentially slippery sidewalks Saturday morning.

Snow from Tuesday’s nor’easter didn’t even have a chance to fully melt before the latest round of winter weather.

The snowfall in the city on Saturday is part of a bigger storm sweeping across the East Coast, which is tracking a bit more south than the one that struck earlier this week.

The fast-moving weather event is expected to dump the most snow on Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, where a winter storm warning was issued late Friday through Saturday morning, according to the NWS. In parts of Maryland and West Virginia, up to 10 inches of snow were possible, with snowfall rates of up to 2 inches per hour at times, the agency said.

And in Philadelphia, residents could see as much as 6 inches of snow while D.C. is slated to get between 2 and 5 inches.

Parts of New Jersey were also getting walloped by winter weather, with as much as a foot of snow in the forecast for central parts of the state.