New York will likely dodge Hurricane Dorian’s fury — and instead wind up with wind and light rain “like a lower-end nor’easter” on Friday, AccuWeather said Wednesday.

The weakening storm, which slammed into the Bahamas on Sunday, will pick up forward speed after it moves past the Carolinas and could bring winds of 25 mph into New York on Friday, with gusts up to 35 mph and up to an inch of rain, forecasters said.

“There is going to be some rain and wind, in a very simple, broken-down, capsulized version,” senior meteorologist David Dombek said. “Then Dorian moves quickly. By Friday it’s no longer this crawling storm. By Friday it’s cranking along pretty good.”

Dombek said the most dangerous impact of Dorian will be the rip tides it will create offshore and on New York beaches, with Long Island also expected to see stronger winds with gusts up to 50 mph.

Dorian is on record as one of the fiercest storms to ever visit the Atlantic, hitting the Bahamas on Sunday as a Category 5 hurricane with 185-mph sustained winds and staggering 225-mph gusts that left much of the archipelago in ruins.

The storm has been downgraded to a powerful Category 2 with 105-mph winds — enough to force the evacuation of more than 2 million people in the southeastern US.

It is expected to hit the Carolinas on Thursday.

The storm stalled over the Bahamas for two days, but is picking up speed and had a forward speed of 9 mph on Wednesday. It is also expanding, with winds now extending outward for 175 miles from the eye, according to the National Weather Center.