A small accumulation of snow (less than half an inch) this morning in Central Park became the first of winter 2022/2023, after New York City broke a 50-year record three days ago.
“This is the first measurable snowfall later in the season since records began in 1869,” the National Weather Service (NWS) commented. Additionally, the longest snow-free period in NYC is 332 days, ending with a storm on December 15, 2020. If Central Park had remained snow-free for three more days, through February 4, the city would have beaten also that record, commented ABC News.
Central Park recorded its first measurable snowfall (0.4″) of the season today at 5:30am, ahead of a drop in temperatures expected to begin tomorrow night and last through Sunday, with clear skies.
At the moment in NYC the temperature is located at a wind chill of 25F (-4C). During the day Saturday there will not be so much wind, but it seems that the thermometer will only reach one digit in degrees F, he predicted CBS News.
The city did see some flakes last week, but the snow needs to add up to at least a tenth of an inch in Central Park to count as measurable.
Until today’s fall, exactly half a century ago (1973) there had been the latest snow accumulation on record: that year the first was on January 29 with 1.8 inches.
Although there had been no snow in NYC, earlier this winter a gust of arctic air swept through the tri-state area at Christmas time bringing record cold and tragedy to the region with a lengthy snowfall that killed at least 38 people.
Weather updates can be found here and on the National Weather Service (NWS-NY) website.