Noreaster set to chill NYC, bring upstate snow: Chilliest air so far this season

It’s time to get your sweaters and coats out of storage.Blustery and rainy conditions are expected to hit New York City on Thursday and Friday, with a nor’easter set to churn up the coast, potentially bringing the season’s first snowfall to some areas.“It looks like this will be primarily a rain maker for much of the Northeast,” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Carl Erickson told The Post Monday.“There will be some rain coming into the New York City area as early as Thursday afternoon.It looks like the steadiest and heaviest of that will occur on late Thursday and into Friday morning,” Erickson forecast.The meteorologist predicted that up to an inch of precipitation could cause some street flooding and drainage problems in the boroughs.After the storm passes through the region, colder air and “pretty gusty winds out of the northwest” were set to settle behind it, with overnight lows in the mid to high 30s expected for the city and suburbs on Friday and Saturday, according to the forecaster.“This will bring some of the chilliest air so far this season behind the storm,” Erickson said.As far as snow, Erickson predicted that there could be “wet snowflakes mixed in across the Hudson Valley.”However, any snowfall of note would be contained to higher elevations with colder temperatures.“There will be just enough cold air that you probably have to go up to elevations above 1,800, 2,000 feet where there could be some snow mixed in, so maybe the higher elevations, the mountains of West Virginia, and in up into maybe the Adirondacks, could be some slippery spots, some light coatings of snow,” he cautioned.The change in the weather was set to be jarring compared to the sunny skies and above-average temperatures in the 60s that the Big Apple enjoyed in the first half of the week.“It won’t be a drastic Arctic cold surge but it will be a big change considering how nice it will be in the near term,” the meteorologist said.Nor’easters are stro...