Parts of the US may be slammed mid-week with up to a foot of snow and brutally cold temperatures as a powerful nor’easter moves across the country — but the Big Apple will be spared, according to the most recent forecasts.

New York City will begin to see the effects of the storm Wednesday night into Thursday morning, with a wintry mix accumulating no more than an inch of snow — if anything sticks, Fox Weather told The Post.

By Thursday afternoon, little more than flurries will remain in the metro area as the storm passes and heads out to sea.

Up the coast into New England, the effects of the storm should be even less than the tri-state area.

But across the central Plains region — through Kentucky into the mid-Atlantic region south of Washington DC – some places could see up to a foot of snow that could break records.

“The winter storm developing in the Plains is going to move across the central part of the United States and parts of the Ohio Valley, where they just received all that flooding,” Fox Forecast Center meteorologist Stephen McCloud said. “Now they’re going to get potentially record snow.” 

Moderate to heavy snow may impact the Interstate 90 corridor from Des Moines, Iowa, to Chicago, according to the Fox Forecast Center, which warned areas in eastern Kansas, across much of Missouri may see anywhere from 8 to 12 inches.

The eastern coast of Virginia in the Norfolk area could also see up to 12 inches of snow, according to forecasts.

While some states will still find themselves buried, the forecast comes as a relief for much of the East Coast after earlier storm models predicted most of that region would be similarly blanketed.

“There may be some areas in the Northeast that could get a couple of inches, maybe northern New Jersey, maybe New York City, maybe out on Long Island and maybe toward Boston, but the current forecast has it moving further south, therefore lessening the snowfall totals,” McCloud said. 

While the threat of snow hitting the Big Apple has lessened significantly, temperatures throughout the week will remain in the mid-20s before warming up to the mid-30s by the afternoon.  

Forecasters warn there is still much uncertainty about the system’s exact track and how much snow it may bring as the storm may continue to change before dissipating later in the week.