New Yorkers could get socked with up to six new inches of snow Saturday, putting the city on track to more than double its annual average snowfall.
The new forecast came as city residents spent Friday digging out from Thursday’s dumping.
Among them was Sister Shirley Ladd, who gamely hoisted shovels full of sloppy, heavy snow from the driveway of the Staten Island home she shares with three other nuns.
“I love the snow. It’s the shoveling I don’t like,” said the Minnesota native, who was in full habit as she toiled outside the Schoenstatt Shrine of St. Mary in West Brighton.
Ladd and her colleagues last year paid someone to dig them out but opted not to this year.
They may want to rethink that decision.
“We’re most likely looking at two to four inches of accumulation,” AccuWeather’s Dave Dombek told The Post. “But this is one of those things that, at the last minute, it could overachieve and maybe come in at six inches.”
But, he said, “compared to what we just went through, that’s a drop in the bucket.”
Snow will likely start falling in the city by 8 a.m., Dombek said, and finish by early Saturday evening.
With temps near 34 degrees, it will be a wet snow. Main roads, he said, “will probably just be wet, or at worst, slushy.”
The city’s total snowfall through Friday morning was 54 inches, making this winter already the eighth snowiest on record, AccuWeather says. The annual city average is 28 inches.
Across the city, drivers worked to free their snowbound cars and pedestrians navigated mounds of snow and pools of slush.
Potholes wreaked havoc on drivers, who were lined up by the dozens with flat tires along FDR Drive and the Mill Basin area of the Belt Parkway. The West Side Highway was underwater in several sections.
Police and buildings officials got several calls about caving roofs. A man was trapped in a car in a garage after a partial collapse on 109th Street but was unhurt.
Water and salt from the snowmelt caused several manholes to explode or catch fire in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Leonardo da Vinci Intermediate school in Corona, Queens was evacuated when the FDNY found a manhole explosion elevated carbon-monoxide levels in its basement.
A travel advisory remained in effect Friday, but area airports began boarding grounded passengers onto flights as near-regular service resumed.
About 7,400 flights were canceled nationwide on Thursday, the highest number all winter.
Meanwhile, TV weatherman Al Roker — who ripped Mayor de Blasio Friday on Twitter for keeping public schools open during Thursday’s storm — stood by his criticism on Friday. He did apologize for one tweet forecasting “one term” for Hizzoner.
