Wind advisories and warnings swirled around New York City and the tristate area Monday as plunging temperatures turned potential 50-mph gusts into Arctic blasts.
The National Weather Service forecast fierce winds in the wake of the winter storm that saw several inches of snow fall over the weekend.
The MTA banned “all tractor-trailers, house trailers, motorcycles, step vans, cars pulling trailers, minibuses, and any vehicle deemed to be a potential safety hazard” on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge due to the potential for high winds. AirTrain service at Newark International Airport was temporarily suspended, officials said, warning that “weather conditions may disrupt” service.
“The main piece of the week is cold weather,” NWS meteorologist David Stark told the Daily News. “Today it’s going to be very blustery and cold.”
Monday’s winds “will make it feel like it is in the teens,” the NWS said on X. “A few flurries are possible.”
For the rest of this week, a storm that moved ashore in the West on Sunday is slated to march across the middle of the country and hit the East around Wednesday, AccuWeather reported.
Initial predictions were for potential snow in the Northeast, but that changed as the brunt of the storm appeared to be heading farther south and would most likely miss New York City, Stark said. That was echoed by AccuWeather senior meteorologist Bob Larson, who told the News that the most the New York area would see would be a dusting, if that.
However that storm could bring major travel disruptions to the mid-Atlantic, AccuWeather meteorologists noted. The incoming system would dump heavy snow from Kansas to Missouri on Tuesday and send snow and ice to North Carolina and southeastern Virginia on Wednesday, the NWS said.
