New York Post

YULE SEE SNOWFALL

Might be up to 3 inches on Christmas

- By NATALIE MUSUMECI nmusumeci@nypost.com

If you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, you just might get it.

There’s more than a quarter of a chance New Yorkers could wake up to snow on Christmas morning, according to the National Weather Service’s latest forecast.

Forecasts for Christmas Eve show sunny skies with a high of 43 degrees.

But rain is forecast to begin Sunday night before 10 p.m. It changes to a mix of rain and snow between midnight and 3 a.m. with a possible turn to all snow as temperatur­es dip into the mid- or low 30s.

A snow accumulati­on of up to three inches is possible, according to forecaster­s.

On Monday — Christmas morning — there will be a 30 percent chance of snow before 9 a.m. in the Big Apple, according to the National Weather Service.

Sunny skies are expected for the rest of Christmas Day, with a pro- jected high temperatur­e of 39 degrees. By nightfall, some clouds are anticipate­d to roll in, with a low temperatur­e of 26 degrees.

“There’s going to be snow — it’s just a matter of whether it accumulate­s or not,” AccuWeathe­r meteorolog­ist Tom Kines told The Post Friday.

“My hunch is probably not,” Kines said. “The odds are it’s not going to [accumulate]. The ground is just not cold enough.”

Saturday, the temperatur­e is expected to warm up amid precipitat­ion, with nearly a 100 percent chance of rain, the National Weather Service predicts.

Saturday’s high is expected to come close to 50 degrees. Predicted rainfall is between one-half and three quarters of an inch.

It has been rare for the Big Apple to see snow on Christmas. The city’s historical probabilit­y of snowfall on the Yule holiday is 11 percent, according to CNN.

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