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Blizzard predicted to hit Riverhead Tuesday night

By Vera Chinese

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Marcy Avenue in Riverhead is plowed following the Dec. 26 blizzard

The National Weather Service in Upton has issued a winter storm warning for Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon.

The Weather Service is predicting 6 to 10 inches of the white stuff to start falling in Riverhead tomorrow evening, with the heaviest snow after 10 p.m. An additional 3 to 7 inches is possible Wednesday. The chance of precipitation is  now 100 percent and a low temperature of 29 degrees is predicted for Tuesday night. Wind gusts of 20 to 35 mph are also predicted.

Travel conditions are expected to be hazardous Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, the Weather Service said.

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Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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