Remnants of the final main snow storm practically a month in the past nonetheless keep on with New York Metropolis sidewalks. Small piles of white now look extra like coal mounds from the mud, soot and different buildup.
Now, New Yorkers and the remainder of the tri-state space are as soon as once more bracing for an additional main snow storm that might convey a foot of snow to the 5 boroughs.
With the potential for Sunday’s nor’easter to succeed in blizzard standing, it is easy to surprise how way more may come down this winter.
Legendary Olympic snowboarder Shaun White was seen snowboarding in Central Park on Sunday.
Central Park noticed practically a foot of snow from the storm that started on Jan. 25. It is a quantity we may see repeated by the point Sunday’s storm wraps up.
The most important snowfall complete in recent times was 17.4″ about 5 years in the past.
And whereas snow is not any stranger to the 5 boroughs in February — or March — you need to return practically a decade to search out the final April snow within the 5 boroughs. Greater than 5 inches fell in Central Park throughout that storm — essentially the most for any April snow within the metropolis. That 2018 storm was a part of the largest NYC snowstorm to hit within the month of April since 1982, when greater than 9.5 inches fell on Central Park.
However even when a contemporary foot drops on town, it nonetheless will not evaluate with the largest recorded snow storms in Central Park historical past, with the biggest one dumping 27.5″ simply over a decade in the past within the blizzard of 2016. The tenth largest storms in 1935 and 1941, every introduced over 18 inches to the park. The final blizzard warning issued for New York Metropolis (and Suffolk County, Lengthy Island) was in 2022.
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TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP through Getty Photos An individual holds an umbrella as snow falls in Central Park in New York Metropolis on January 25, 2026.
However for no matter complications this newest storm of 2026 brings, the ultimate months of 2025 had been form. New York Metropolis normally sees its first measurable snowfall on Dec. 7. The earliest measurable snow in Central Park on file fell on Oct. 15, 1876 — two weeks earlier than Halloween.
