Thursday, January 27, 2011

Snow Keeps Piling-Up in the Big Apple

January 2011 now sits at the snowiest first month of all time for New York City. The recent storm that impacted much of the Northeast Wednesday and Thursday dropped 19" of snow on New York's Central Park. This brings their January total to a record-breaking 36.0". (The old record was 27.4" set back in 1925.) New York City's seasonal total now stands at 56.1", which is just 19" shy of their record snowiest winter of all time which was set back in 1995-96.

Although New York averages just 12.3" of snow between now and the end of the snow season in early April, they still stand a decent chance at achieving the all-time snowiest winter on record as the snowier-than-average pattern looks to continue. Another powerful area of low pressure will move across the South and take a left turn up the east coast next week, giving them the possibility of a Groundhog Day Storm.

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