After days of balmy weather, New York City is slated to get buried in snow and then hit with an arctic blast expected to unleash a potentially life-threatening chill. With a frigid polar vortex set to grip huge swaths of the U.

Winter weather advisories and a winter storm warning have been issued in the southern half of New Jersey, while the New York City metro area is likely to only see a glancing blow, AccuWeather says.