Snowplow drivers anxiously awaiting the first plowable snowfall of the year may have to remain patient.

The amount of snow originally forecast to fall Sunday night into Monday morning has since lessened.

For now, the expectation is for an inch or slightly more of snow to fall in the region, according to Tom Kines, a senior meteorologist with AccuWeather.

While the snow is likely to arrive Sunday night and continue probably well into the day on Monday, Kines said it doesn’t figure to amount to all that much.

“We’re on the northern edge of the storm,” Kines said. “We’re not expecting a whole lot of snow, maybe an inch or 2.”

Then again, things could change depending on the track of the storm, Kines said.

“Having said that, if the storm would happen to go 40 or 50 miles further north, we could get into that 6-inch snowfall area,” he said. “And vice versa; if the storm shifts a little bit further south, we could get little or no snow.”

Regardless, Kines said any snow we do get should be real light and fluffy, hence it should be fairly easy to move around.

“In the near future, once this storm leaves us, we’re going to be good as far as stormy weather for at least a few days,” he said. “(There’s) no impending storm following this.”

But temperatures are soon expected to take a dip, Kines cautioned.

“We are getting into a colder weather pattern,” he said, adding that typically this time of year we should see highs up in the mid-30s. “I think the days of high temperatures in the mid-30s, probably the next seven to 10 days are few and far between; it will be colder than what it should be.”

Yet still, Kines noted the area is a little below normal this time of year as far as snowfall is concerned.

“There was concern that when we get back into February and maybe even into March, that the weather pattern becomes more conducive for snowfall or more frequent snowfall,” he said. “That could certainly provide us a near normal snowfall for the winter.”