New Yorkers and people across the Northeast received a thick blanket of snow during a winter storm that coated the region, and in some areas, delivered more snow than the entire local 2019-2020 winter season, according to weather experts.
The storm system, dubbed Winter Storm Gail by the Weather Channel, resulted in at least two deaths and dumped anywhere from a few inches to more than a foot of snow across the Northeast. The snowfall began on Wednesday and has lingered into Thursday morning.
âWeâre not entirely done. But the heaviest snowfall has likely passed,â DaâVel Johnson, a National Weather Service meteorologist, told the New York Times.
Ten inches of snow fell in Central Park, more than the paltry 4.8 inches that fell there during all of the 2019-2020 season. Accuweather meteorologist Isaac Longley said that last year, there was a dearth of major winter storms like Gail.
âLast winter was a very mild winter and we really didnât see any of those major winter storms, those norâeasters,â Longley told the New York Post. âSo a lot of locations, including New York City, did not really see a lot of snowfall at all. It was a record-breaking year in terms of low snowfall amounts.â
Other locations in New York experienced even greater snowfall, with Binghamton, located in upstate New York, receiving more than 40 inches of fluff, shattering the cityâs two-day snowfall records. The snowstorm also affected areas as far south as Washington, D.C., which recorded about an inch of snow on Wednesday, although the storm soon transitioned to rain and ice for the region.
