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City Waits to See if Incoming Storm Brings Heavy Snow or Torrential Rain

By Gwynne Hogan | January 22, 2015 1:42pm
 Saturday storm could dump several inches of now on the city, National Weather Service says. 
Saturday storm could dump several inches of now on the city, National Weather Service says. 
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NEW YORK CITY — A storm targeting the city this weekend could either cripple with heavy snow or drench with rain.

Forecasters still don't know if temperatures will be low enough for the white stuff, or if it will turn to sleet before it reaches New York.

But they're anticipating up to 6 inches of rain or snow, depending on how temperatures fluctuate, according to the National Weather Service.

"Right now, what we're looking at is a widespread area of 3 to 6 inches of snow; the uncertainty is where that rain snow line sets up," Brian Ciemnecki from the NWS said.

He said the weather front was still in Texas Thursday, making it difficult to predict.

The storm will begin at daybreak Saturday morning, when temperatures are expected to hover in the low 30s, and continue through the day. The heaviest precipitation will come in the afternoon, Ciemnecki said.

The storm will peter out by midnight Saturday and make way for partly sunny skies on Sunday with temperatures in the mid 30s.