Mineola Under Winter Weather Advisory as Back-to-Back Storms Take Aim

By Ryan Bonner

If you hate winter weather (and your boss won’t mind), you may want to hop into bed right now and set your alarm clock for Friday morning because the next 48 hours or so are going to be a mess.

A winter weather advisory went into effect for all of Long Island at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Snow is expected to begin late in the afternoon and then mix with sleet and freezing rain in the evening. The precipitation will change to freezing rain by midnight and then to plain rain overnight, the NWS said in the winter weather advisory, which expires at 2 a.m. Wednesday.

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The weather advisory says 1-3 inches of snow may fall by the end of Tuesday on Long Island. The latest NWS snowfall total projections map for the island, however, has nudged those estimates down to 1-2 inches. A few-hundredths to a tenth of an inch of ice accumulation is also possible. The East End is expected to be on the lower end of the snow and ice accumulations.

“Snow covered surfaces coated with ice will make traveling difficult at times,” the NWS said.

Rain is likely all day Wednesday and the temperature will near 40 degrees. It will be late Wednesday night into Thursday when Long Island may see some significant snow. A hazardous weather outlook issued by the NWS says there is “the potential for 6 inches or more of snow to fall from Wednesday night into Thursday.”

The full forecast:

• This Afternoon- Snow likely, mainly after 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 33. Wind chill values between 20 and 25. South wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total daytime snow accumulation of around an inch possible.
• Tonight- Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet before 9pm, then rain and sleet between 9pm and 10pm, then rain after 10pm. Temperature rising to around 37 by midnight. Wind chill values between 25 and 30. South wind 10 to 13 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. New snow and sleet accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.
• Wednesday- Light rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Wind chill values between 30 and 35. West wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
• Wednesday Night- Rain before midnight, then snow. Low around 27. Wind chill values between 20 and 25. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
• Thursday- Snow, mainly before 3pm. High near 28. North wind 10 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.
• Thursday Night- A slight chance of snow before 9pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 10. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
• Friday- Sunny, with a high near 26.

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