2020â2021 winter weather outlook for the New York area Winter weather forecast FOX 5 meteorologist Nick Gregory has winter predictions including how much snow New York could get this season. NEW YORK - With raging western wildfires to a record tropical cyclone season, 2020 has certainly been a year of weather-related extremes. Only the second time since the naming of tropical storms and hurricanes began in 1953, we went through the English alphabet and well into the Greek alphabet, too. So you might be asking, "Could the large number of tropical systems this year have any effect on our upcoming winter?" The answer is yes and no. The number of storms isn't significant but the weather pattern that allowed so many to form will play a role in our winter.