Your weather forecast for New Year's Eve: rain, snow and more

Is the weather cooperating with your New Year’s Eve plans?

“The good news is that the weather will be dry and cooperative across much of the United States as the final minutes of 2024 end and the first moments of 2025 begin,” AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said in an online -Forecast.

A major exception will be the East, where a storm will drench parts of the northeastern U.S. with rain and even cover some areas with light snow on New Year’s Eve. Rain is expected to fall from the Carolinas to New England on Tuesday, forecasters said.

The storm will be the start of what is expected to be a very cold, possibly stormy stretch of weather for much of the U.S. as the calendar turns to 2025.

Forecast for a waterlogged Times Square

New York City, particularly Times Square, is one of the areas that will be drenched by the storm.

In New York City, where thousands are expected to gather for the annual Times Square Ball Drop, officials have already begun warning people that the heaviest rain is expected to hit the city between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 4 a.m. Wednesday.

“People traveling to the event should be prepared for rain to begin in the second half of the evening hours Tuesday, falling in torrents as the ball falls at midnight and continuing into the early morning hours Wednesday,” AccuWeather said .

“Are you planning on watching the ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve?” Stay alert to the weather as moderate to heavy rain is possible within a few hours of midnight tonight,” the New York State Weather Risk Communication Center said in a weather outlook X.

More:Flood warnings are in effect as storms hit the Northeast this week

Snow in the Midwest

Snow is possible around the northern and western Great Lakes, including Chicago, on Tuesday. At least a wintry mix will occur on the storm’s northwestern flank from parts of Indiana to northern and western New York state and northern New England, AccuWeather said.

In Chicago, the National Weather Service said that “colder air entering the system from the north and northwest on Tuesday will allow rain from west to east to gradually mix or transition to wet snow before it ends on Tuesday evening.”

The weather service in Detroit is also predicting a white New Year’s Eve: “Colder air is coming on Tuesday with possible additional rain and snow on New Year’s Eve. Snowfall of 1 to 2 inches will be possible primarily along and south of the I-69 corridor.”

More:Flood warnings are in effect as storms hit the Northeast this week

The West is best

Meteorologists said the western half of the U.S. will be mostly clear and dry on New Year’s Eve. Conditions will be largely clear in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, with temperatures falling to over 50 degrees.

An exception will be the Pacific Northwest, where revelers in Portland, Oregon and Seattle will likely be bothered by occasional rain on New Year’s Eve, Sosnowski said.

Polar vortex approaching?

Looking ahead, significantly colder air is forecast to move in waves across the central, eastern and southern U.S. during the first through tenth weeks of January. “The severity of the cold air could be dangerous, damaging and disruptive,” Sosnowski said.

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Your weather forecast for New Year’s Eve: rain, snow and more

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