Components of New York’s Hudson Valley bought as much as 15 inches of snow from this weekend’s nor’easter, which was largely a wet dud within the 5 boroughs, extending New York Metropolis’s practically 700-day snow drought.
Plattekill, in Ulster County had recorded 14.6 inches of snow had fallen by 8 a.m. Sunday morning, and Norfolk, Connecticut had obtained 12 inches and Poughkeepsie noticed 11.5 inches, in keeping with the Fox Forecast Heart.
Manhattan’s Central Park solely notched a paltry 0.2 inches of powder Saturday night earlier than snow changed into rain and sleet, forecasters stated.
New York Metropolis has nonetheless not seen greater than an inch of snow since February of 2022.
“We’ve not damaged our one-inch benchmark for snow in 692 days,” Fox Climate meteorologist Marissa Lautenbacher advised The Publish Sunday morning.
Rain was anticipated to proceed drenching New York Metropolis effectively into the afternoon Sunday earlier than the storm system strikes out of the area, however snow was anticipated to proceed falling within the inside areas of the tri-state space, Lautenbacher stated.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul stated Saturday that two-thirds of The Empire State was anticipated to get a minimum of eight inches of snow, and stated it was “lucky” that the storm spared the “extra populated areas downstate.”
“That’s a fairly tight gradient price of snow like New York Metropolis basically receiving near nil versus solely 50 miles away…receiving actually like a foot’s price of snow,” Lautenbacher stated.
Final 12 months, a measly 2.3 inches of snow fell within the Huge Apple in whole — the least in recorded historical past for a metropolis the place over a foot of snowfall was not out of the norm till lately, largely on account of unseasonably heat temperatures.
New Yorkers shouldn’t get their hopes up for a snow day any time quickly both, Lautenbacher warned.
The following storm system heading for the area, which is beginning within the central US and anticipated to maneuver north, will solely deliver extra rain.
We’re going to see extra of a rain risk and flooding with that as a result of, once more, we’ll be on the nice and cozy facet of the storm. New York identical to merely simply didn’t get chilly sufficient,” Lautenbacher stated.