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New Yorkers were battening down on Saturday for what is expected to be the first major winter storm of 2024, forecast to dump a snowy mix on the Big Apple and beyond through the weekend. It’s been nearly two years since New York has seen more than an inch of snow in a 24-hour time span. While it’s a near certainty the city will be hit with at least some snow, whether it will break its nearly snowless streak depends on small nuances in the storm’s track. Much of the greater New York City area is right along the storm’s rain-snow line, with meteorologists noting temperatures have been warmer in ......

NEW YORK — A flood watch is in effect across the New York City area from Sunday afternoon into early Monday morning, as forecasters say a powerful storm could dump up to 3 inches of rain in the region. Most of the rain will fall during a 12-hour period starting in the early evening on Sunday, officials with the National Weather Service in New York said in a briefing Friday night. All five boroughs are under a flood watch from 4 p.m. Sunday until 6 a.m. Monday, while a high wind watch — with sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph and gusts up to 60 mph — is also in effect for Brooklyn and Queens durin......

DETROIT — The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only inspired an iconic ballad from Canadian crooner Gordon Lightfoot, it also led to the advancement of Great Lakes weather monitoring and forecasting that has helped ships navigate storms ever since. Forty-eight years ago, the largest freighter in Lake Superior history sank during a November storm. "Back in 1975, there were actually zero wave-monitoring buoys on Lake Superior, which is hard to even fathom," said Matt Zika, a meteorologist at the National Weather Station's Marquette office. "You take Lake Superior, which is basically the size......

The National Hurricane Center increased the chances a system near the Bahamas could form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm while also tracking a system in the Caribbean and issuing its final advisory on what had been Tropical Storm Tammy. The area of low pressure now located in the southwestern Atlantic moved north after dropping rain over the eastern Caribbean islands this weekend and is now located a couple hundred miles east of the southeastern Bahamas showing more signs of organization. “A short-lived tropical depression or storm is likely to form later today or tonight w......

The National Hurricane Center said the extratropical cyclone that had been Hurricane Tammy reformed in the Atlantic as Tropical Storm Tammy, while also tracking a new system in the Caribbean with a chance to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm. The NHC had given what it said would be its final advisory on what had been a long-churning Hurricane Tammy on Thursday morning, as of 11 a.m. Eastern time Friday, when the system had regained tropical characteristics. By 5 p.m., it was located about 200 miles east of Bermuda moving northwest at 3 mph with maximum sustained winds of 65......

The National Hurricane Center said the extratropical cyclone that had been Hurricane Tammy reformed in the Atlantic as Tropical Storm Tammy, while also tracking a new system in the Caribbean with a chance to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm. The NHC had given what they said would be their final advisory on what had been a long-churning Hurricane Tammy on Thursday morning, as of 11 a.m. Friday, the system had regained tropical characteristics. It was located about 215 miles east of Bermuda moving northwest at 3 mph with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. Tropical-storm-forc......