MIDTOWN — Maybe Staten Island Chuck isn't the best forecaster.
A nasty mix of sleet and freezing rain Monday morning is expected to make for a nightmarish start to the work week for New Yorkers — and then temperatures are set to plunge to arctic levels, according to the National Weather Service.
The freeze comes just a week after Chuck the groundhog predicted an early spring.
Monday's sleet was expected to turn to ice after 9 a.m., dumping up to two-tenths of an inch throughout the day, according to the NWS.
The city could also see half an inch of snow Monday as a low-pressure system moves East from the Ohio Valley and temperatures hover in the 20s.
The nasty weather will likely linger into the evening with an inch of snow and sleet possible by midnight, forecasters said.
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The precipitation should let up Tuesday as the system moves out of the area and the high gets above the freezing mark, according to the NWS.
But frigid temperatures are in the forecast again Thursday and Friday as a cold air mass filters down from Canada and the low dips to a high of just 18 degrees on Friday, forecasters said.
The Friday night low is expected to be just 5 degrees, close to the Feb. 13 record low of minus 1 reached in 1914.
