Weather forecasters are advising New Yorkers to enjoy the current spring weather while it lasts because another nor'easter is headed to the east coast.
A nor'easter is a storm generated from northeastern winds. The snowstorm is expected to hit on Tuesday night.
"The East Coast cyclone has the potential to produce late season heavy snowfall over a wide swath of real estate from Virginia to New England," National Weather Service forecasters said in Maryland, the New York Daily News reported. "That is a generality at this point. Much remains in terms of refining the forecast sate-by-state."
New York cold get hit the hardest.
"The worst case would be a storm track that is close enough to the coast that New York metro area would be the heaviest," NWS meteorologist Tim Morrin said according to the Daily News.
Meteorologists suspect the storm could be a "bomb" type, bringing winds as powerful as a hurricane, coastal flooding and lots of snow, the Daily News reported. But only time will tell.
"It's too far in the future for us to have a lot of confidence in the 'bomb' scenario," Morrin said, the Daily News reported.
The storm could last into Wednesday, bringing temperatures down into the 30s throughout the week.
"That's about 13 degrees below normal," Morrin said.
Though it is spring, storms in March are "not unprecedented," said Lauren Nash, from the NWS, according to amNewYork. There was a March snowstorm, labeled the Great Blizzard, in 1888 that lasted four days. Another storm hit in April 1982 that brought 9.6 inches of snow to Central Park, amNewYork reported.
Meteorologists should have a better idea on Sunday of how much snow will fall.
"That's why we've put in a 40 percent chance of some snow for Tuesday night, it's still less than half-and-half that it will happen," Morrin said according to the Daily News.
Nevertheless, "Enjoy spring while you can," Nash said, amNewYork reported.
