Parts of New York’s Hudson Valley got up to 15 inches of snow from a nor’easter this weekend, mostly heavy rain in the five boroughs, extending New York City’s nearly 700-day snow drought.
Plattekill, in Ulster County had recorded 14.6 inches of snow as of 8 a.m. Sunday, and Norfolk, Connecticut had received 12 inches and Poughkeepsie saw 11.5 inches, according to the Fox Forecast Center.
Manhattan’s Central Park recorded just 0.2 inches of powder Saturday evening before the snow turned to rain and sleet, forecasters said.
New York City has yet to see more than an inch of snow since February 2022.
“We haven’t broken our one-inch benchmark for snow in 692 days,” Fox Weather meteorologist Marissa Lautenbacher told The Post Sunday morning.
Rain is expected to continue to drench New York City through midday Sunday before the storm system moves out of the region, but snow is expected to continue inland in the tri-state area, Lautenbacher said.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Saturday that two-thirds of the Empire State was expected to get at least eight inches of snow, and said it was “fortunate” that the storm spared “the more populated areas of the downstate.”
“That’s a pretty tight snow gradient value like New York City basically receiving almost zero compared to just 50 miles away… receiving literally like a foot of snow,” Lautenbacher said.
The snow quickly turned to rain on Saturday, which is expected to continue into Sunday evening. Reuters
The snow draft in the city has been continuous since almost 700 days since an inch of snow was recorded. Reuters
Last year, a paltry 2.3 inches of snow fell in the Big Apple — the least in recorded history for a city where more than a foot of snow wasn’t out of the ordinary until recently, largely due to unseasonably warm temperatures. according to the season.
New Yorkers also shouldn’t get their hopes up for a snow day anytime soon, Lautenbacher warned.
The next storm system headed for the region, which started in the central US and is expected to move north, will only bring more rain.
We will see more threats of rain and flooding with it because, again, we will be on the warm side of the storm. New York just isn’t cool enough,” Lautenbacher said.
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