Parts of New York state are required to be socked with up to 10 creeps of snow Thursday – and that is no April Fools’ joke.

The National Weather Service has given a colder time of year storm watch for focal bits of the Empire State, where somewhere in the range of 5 and 10 inches – and surprisingly more in the Adirondacks – could descend, reports.

The watch will be as a result from late Wednesday through late Thursday for a large portion of upstate north of the Southern Tier, from western New York through the Adirondacks.

“More prominent than 4 creeps of snow is looking almost certain for a significant part of the Finger Lakes district into the New York Thruway corridor, with detached measures of 6 inches where the heaviest snow band sets up,” said the weather service office in Binghamton.

The tempest will begin as rain prior to transforming into snow as temperatures fall Wednesday night into Thursday morning – however it will not stay because of the solid sun this season, as per the report.

The high will be 39 degrees on Thursday, with a low of 23 degrees around evening time, in the area, as indicated by the weather service.