Snow New York NYC Long Island: How much snow did NYC get? Check New York weather forecast, snowfall

The New York City area would likely experience 5 to 9 inches of snow north of the city, along the Hudson River Valley into central New York, and along central and eastern Long Island, according to the National Weather Service. Some areas could see up to 11 inches. The storm, which started Friday afternoon, is expected to reach its strongest point overnight and snowfall is expected to drop as much as 2 inches per hour. The snow will decrease with sunrise on Saturday, but light snowfall is possible until noon.

Some parts of the region may experience the most significant snow totals in recent years. Last winter, New York City recorded barely more than 12 inches for the season; That’s still up 7.5 inches from the previous winter and a paltry 2.3 inches from the winter before that. From February 2022 to January 2024, the city did not experience meaningful snowfall for almost two years.

Other parts of the Northeast, including parts of western Pennsylvania, faced the possibility of an intense ice storm starting Friday and continuing through Saturday morning. A warning was in place for an area stretching from Erie, Pennsylvania, to the mountainous areas north and east of Pittsburgh, where forecasters warned people to avoid travel.
Grains began falling in New York City late Friday, with what was expected to be the biggest snowfall in the nation’s largest metropolitan area in more than three years. Snowfall continued in the city and surrounding suburbs in the evening, making driving dangerous. Forecasters said the snowfall eased briefly just before midnight but picked up again throughout the night.

The storm was expected to dump 2 to 5 inches of snow on New York City and northeastern New Jersey, according to the National Weather Service’s updated forecast released at 8:23 p.m., lowering earlier forecasts. Even with reduced totals, snowfall will be significant for a region that has accumulated nearly a foot of snow in some places for three consecutive winters. In the Lower Hudson Valley and Long Island areas, the weather service predicted 6 to 11 inches. The forecast was for snowfall to peak overnight and then taper off early Saturday.

At 8 p.m., the weather service reported 3 inches of accumulation in Somers, New York, in Westchester County; 2.2 inches in Bridgeport, Connecticut; and 1.9 inches in Islip, New York, on Long Island. Totals in New York City were more modest: 0.3 inches in Central Park and 0.1 inches at both LaGuardia and Kennedy airports.
Still, snow was expected to continue at a rate of 5 inches per hour or more overnight, indicating heavy accumulations were still possible. Coming just after Christmas, the spectacle complicated one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.