This Sunday (29), it was 50 years since the city took so long to see the first snow of the season.
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In 1973, New Yorkers only saw snow on January 29, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
Furthermore, the city is close to reaching the longest period of days without snow: the current record is 332 days and, this Sunday (29), there are already 326 days without snow. Thus, this year could go down in history as the longest period without snow since records began in 1869.
Snow often falls on Big Apple in mid-December. In 2021, we had to wait until Christmas. The absence of white flakes at the end of January is something unusual, which bothers residents whose love-hate relationship with snow is usually quite complicated.
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Students and workers love the so-called “snow days” as they can stay at home. Children head out on their sleds and adults head off on their skis to Central Park.
According to meteorologists, it is considered that it snowed in the city of New York when at least a quarter of an inch falls in Central Park. That's why some isolated flakes don't count.
“It’s very rare,” meteorologist Nelson Vaz confirms to AFP, who remembers recent cold waves. In Buffalo, in the north of the state, one meter of snow fell in December, killing 39 people.
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But, 600 kilometers to the south, in the city of New York, this historic storm that froze part of the country was reflected in a lot of rain and abnormally high temperatures.
You have to go back to 1932 to find a warmer start to January than this year, according to Weather.com.
(To AFP)
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