If New York City sees more than 4 inches of snow, it will be the most significant accumulation since January 2022, when more than 8 inches fell in Central Park.

A winter storm watch will take effect for New York City — as well as northeast New Jersey, New York’s lower Hudson Valley and Long Island – on Friday at 4 p.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday,

A major new winter storm is expected to bring ice and snow to the upper Midwest on Thursday, with the system moving through the lower Northeast on Friday.

While it wasn’t a white Christmas in New York City, a snowy weekend is likely, with what could be the biggest snowstorm in four years. City sanitation crews are getting ready to hit the streets to prepare roads for the storm that could bring eight inches to the five boroughs and parts of the Tri-State Area.

Some of the highest totals were on Long Island and in New Jersey, where greater than 6 inches of snow was measured.

Friday's storm could produce a coating to a couple of inches, mostly south of the Mass Pike and southwest of Boston.

As of 1 p.m., 2.7 inches of snow had fallen at Belvedere Castle in Central Park, the official National Weather Service measuring station for the city. That made Sunday the earliest date of the season since 2018 that more than two inches of snow had accumulated in Central Park.

The Christmas weather in New York is not predicted to be as bad as the storms that occurred around Thanksgiving