Old man winter is still sound asleep in the tri-state area.
Another mostly snowless storm is set barrel through the Big Apple Tuesday, drenching most of the region with heavy rain and dangerously high winds that are expected to cause flash flooding.
The storm will arrive in the tri-state area shortly after the morning commute Tuesday — but temperatures in the 40s and 50s will spare the region any snowfall, Fox Weather meteorologist Marissa Lautenbacher told The Post Monday.
“What we’re really concerned about too is the winds are going to be very, very high; we’re going to have very strong wind gusts which could lead to power outages, especially areas in the Northeast that have already gotten like tons and tons of snow,” Lautenbacher said.
“Because this system is so warm and then you add rain on top of it — that’s going to melt off a lot of the snow, and it’s going to cause a lot of flooding issues for many.”
The city and surrounding suburbs were expected to see two to three inches of rain through Wednesday morning, and maximum wind gusts of up to 50 to 60 mph were expected to affect “a majority of the areas along the east coast,” according to the forecaster.
Still, New York City’s nearly 700-day-long record snowless streak is expected to remain in tact.
The New York area is expected to see two to three inches of rain through Wednesday morning.
In fact, the only eastern regions that are expected to see snow will be higher elevations like the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains and swaths of New Hampshire and Maine, Lautenbacher said.
The heavy rain was expected to deplete the snow that had been accumulated in upstate New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire during Sunday’s nor’easter and the resulting overflow was set to overwhelm waterways, she warned.
“A large majority of it will start to melt with the rain going on top of it and then with that melting and with the rain that’s gong to cause flooding concerns for creeks, streams rivers, and areas with poor drainage in general,” Lautenbacher said.
The National Weather Service had issued a flood watch for dozens of the counties surrounding the city, including a huge swatch of New Jersey and all of Long Island, the Hudson Valley and Connecticut.
The service had also forecast flooding at 19 river locations in the region, stretching from Virginia to upstate New York.
The storm is the tail end of a strong low-pressure system that started in the Southwest and brought blizzard conditions to the central Plains and Midwest before setting its sights on the East Coast.
After a “really soggy” Tuesday evening commute, conditions were expected to ease in and around New York City by Wednesday’s morning commute, according to Lautenbacher.
