Long Island is expected to receive 2 to 5 inches of snow, and possibly more, on Sunday, with an arctic air mass arriving next week, the National Weather Service said. A two-day precipitation period is forecast to begin with rain Saturday afternoon, when high temperatures will climb to the upper 40s, the weather service predicts.

Snow will start falling between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in North Jersey and could begin as a brief wintery mix before turning to snow by early afternoon.