How can I really be expected to post today when New York will be a snowy, freezing hell this weekend?

Thank you New York Post for that headline.

And what the paper reports about the weather possibilities:

A fast-moving storm will dump an inch of snow an hour on the city starting at 6 p.m. Saturday and possibly into Sunday, when rain — and then an arctic blast — will turn the Big Apple into a treacherous tundra.

Flakes will fall “hard and quick” before turning to rain sometime between midnight and 3 a.m. Sunday, meteorologists said.

And another take with illustrations...

The NWS has issued a Winter Storm Watch for NYC. Our NY1 official forecast is for 2-4" of snow with snow changing to rain, followed by a flash freeze Sunday night. Conditions will be changeable. pic.twitter.com/Rx8YSJt3SD

— Erick Adame (@ErickAdameOnTV) January 17, 2019

Perhaps the biggest weather story unfolding for NYC is the Dangerous Cold on the way. Snow Saturday night could accumulate briefly but look at the Arctic Blast that arrives Sunday night and peaks on Monday. pic.twitter.com/118nSyRBtQ

— Erick Adame (@ErickAdameOnTV) January 17, 2019

The area is currently under a Winter Weather Watch. There is a 90 percent chance of unbridled media hysteria and random grocery purchases.

Previously on EV Grieve:
How can I really be expected to post today when the Storm of Feb. 9™ is here?

How can I really be expected to post today when heavy thunderstorms are likely on the way?

How can I really be expected to post today when 78 degrees™ is on the way?

[Updating] Snowvember pain: Multiple reports of trees down

There are reader reports of branches/trees down this evening on Sixth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B (thanks Riian Kant-McCormick) ...



11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C (thanks Brian P. Katz) ...





Another view (thanks Brucie!)...



Tompkins Square Park at the Avenue A/St. Mark's Place entrance (thanks Derek Berg) ...



Updated 6:08 p.m.

There's also a downed limb on Second Avenue between Ninth Street and 10th Street (thanks Alice Owen) ...



...and several branches down on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue...

Actually all of st marks is downed trees. pic.twitter.com/0jLBCxU1r5

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) November 15, 2018

Updated 6:22 p.m.

Via Twitter, EVG readers have reported limbs down on Seventh Street between Avenue B and Avenue C ... 10th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... and Fifth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Here's a report on the downed trees, still full of leaves, via NBC 4. ... The combination of the leaves with the wet, heavy snow was too much for some of trees.

Updated 6:49 p.m.

A report from 10th and C...

Snow brought down a massive branch of a tree across East 10 St. and Avenue C. Neighbors came out of their apartments and stores to help clear the street.@evgrieve @edenbrower #FirstSnow #snowday #nycsnow pic.twitter.com/84dfLcay8i

— Evan Kapitansky (@evan_kapitansky) November 15, 2018

Updated 6:51 p.m.

Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (thank you Steven)...



Updated 6:53

EVG reader Helixx C. Armageddon shared this from Suffolk and Stanton ... the police officer on the scene said that three people were injured, though the severity of their injuries isn't known...



Updated 8:45 p.m.

EVG reader Lauren notes down limbs on Second Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue ... and on Bleecker ...





Updated 9 p.m.

Fifth Street between Avenue A and Avenue B (thanks @jeffchatterton!) ...



Fourth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C (thanks @artisanmatters) ...



Updated 9:50 p.m.

14th Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue (thanks Pinch)...

Happy week before Thanksgiving!

A few scenes from Tompkins Square Park this afternoon... and St. Mark's Place...







A few inches of snow is expected before it turns to rain later tonight.

Updated 3:53

Steven shared these photos from the Park...

Wednesday's parting shot

One last Tompkins Square Park snow pic from today... via Derek Berg.

Hanging out, doing stuff

Photos in Tompkins Square Park today by Derek Berg....





It was a tough day for snowmen heads.

Noted

@evgrieve little kid just stole all the heads from the snowmen. pic.twitter.com/Zj8v6WfxDp

— EdenBrower (@edenbrower) March 21, 2018

And where was the @NYPDTWEETTOWER during all this?????

In like a lion, out like a lion

Photo outside St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery by Lola Sāenz.

Up in arms over this loss of limbs

When Goggla arrived in Tompkins Square Park today, this under-construction snow person/creature/thing had arms but not a face...



... an hour later, it had lost its arms but gained a face...



To be continued?

And no sign of any of these yet. But it's early.

March 21

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

A few photos from today's — pick your hashtag! — #WinterStormToby #SnowDay #4Easter #Noreaster4 etc. ...


[Photo by Peter Brownscombe]


[Photo by PB]


[Reader-submitted photo of the New York Marble Cemetery]


[Reader-submitted photo of 7th and A]


[Photo in Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg]

Wednesday's parting shot

Second Avenue at Sixth Street earlier via Derek Berg...

The Mighty Quinn

The view this afternoon from 10th Street and Avenue C (via Bobby Williams) showing Winter Storm Quinn... forecasts are calling for more thundersnow...

Impressive satellite imagery of the rapidly developing winter storm. The bubbling clouds are indication of intense upward motions increasing snow growth and potential for lightning. pic.twitter.com/JeSK4aOUkZ

— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) March 7, 2018

It's snowing a little

Photo from late this afternoon on First Avenue and Seventh Street by Derek Berg...

The National Weather Service is estimating between 4-7 inches of snow before daybreak. [Updated: So much for that accumulation.] When I was out a little earlier in the flurries some people seemed surprised by this turn of events, as if it was actually June instead of February.

Midday snow photo break

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Photo in Tompkins Square Park today by Allen Semanco...

Where you may still frolic in the snow nearby

On 14th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. Temps will be in the 40s today at the base. Lifts open at 10.

12th and Broadway, Thursday

In the air and on the ground... thanks to Dan Efram for letting me repost the photos...

Only 6 months until the Fourth of July

Jan. 4 (today!) on Avenue A...

Today when it bomb cycloned

Derek Berg notes a panda in the Tompkins Square Park Dog Run...



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A few post-storm rooftop scenes via Lindsay Sturm...





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Lola Sāenz shares a snow-day look on First Avenue and 10th Street...



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And Goggla checked in on Christo, the red-tailed hawk, who was pretty nonchalant in Tompkins Square Park...



She has more photos and video of Christo at her site here.

A video sampling is below...

A few snow scenes

EVG Bomb Cyclone Correspondent Derek Berg shared these photos of people out and about today... where some modes of transportation seem better than others...