The weather outside will soon be frightful.
Upstate New York could be facing up to 6 feet of “extreme” snow as the city braces for the coldest temperatures yet this season.
“Every morning is going to be essentially below freezing for the next, at least 10 days, maybe two weeks,” Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post Saturday. “And our afternoon highs are going to be in the low to mid-40s every day as well for this entire week.
“Looking long term to the start of next weekend, we may not even get out of the 30s,” he added.
There’s also a chance the Big Apple could see some snow on Wednesday, although as of Saturday, it is not in the official forecast.
“That’s the million-dollar question everyone wants to know … and I would not rule that out,” Braud said.
The weather pattern is not common, the meteorologist continued.
“It’s called a ‘clipper’ and we haven’t had one in quite a while,” he said. The storm features “an atomic burst of rain and snow that kind of clips the Northeast and portions of the Great Lakes … there’s a chance we may see some flakes fly in the city sometime Wednesday.”
Parts of Upstate are already dealing with Day 2 of what could be five days of disastrous amounts of snowfall.
Snowfall totals in Harrisburg, New York, about 20 miles southeast of Watertown, already neared 3 feet, and “it’s only going to go up,” Braud said. “It’s about a five-day event. This is only going to get worse,” he warned.
The extreme lake-effect snow is also affecting parts of Pennsylvania, northeast Ohio and Michigan.
Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency late Friday because of “potentially dangerous and life-threatening blizzard-like conditions along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.”
Gov. Josh Shapiro deployed the Pennsylvania National Guard to Erie County “to help any stranded drivers and make sure emergency responders can get to folks who need them,” he announced on X Saturday.
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