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

New York City area was likely to get 5 to 9 inches of snow, with the heaviest concentrations north of the city, along the Hudson River Valley up through central New York, and across central and eastern Long Island, according to the National Weather Service. Some areas could get up to 11 inches. After beginning Friday afternoon, the storm was expected to reach its heaviest point overnight, with snowfall potentially coming down at 2 inches per hour. The snow should diminish by sunrise Saturday, although light snow was possible until midmorning.

Parts of the region could experience some of their most significant snow totals in years. Last winter, New York City recorded barely over a foot for the season, still an increase from the 7.5 inches the previous winter and the paltry 2.3 inches the winter before that. From February 2022 to January 2024, the city went nearly two full years without meaningful snowfall.

Other parts of the Northeast, including sections of western Pennsylvania, faced the prospect of an intense ice storm starting Friday and extending into Saturday morning. A warning was in place for an area stretching from Erie, Pennsylvania, to the highlands north and east of Pittsburgh, where forecasters warned people to avoid travel.
The flakes began falling late Friday in New York City in what was expected to be the biggest snowfall in more than three years in the nation’s largest metropolitan area. Snow began falling steadily in the city and nearby suburbs in the evening, making driving hazardous. The snowfall eased briefly, just before midnight, but was picking up again overnight, forecasters said.

The storm was expected to drop 2 to 5 inches of snow in New York City and northeast New Jersey, according to an updated National Weather Service forecast issued at 8:23 p.m., lowering earlier projections. Even at the reduced totals, the snowfall would be substantial for an area where hardly a foot of snow has accumulated in some places for three straight winters. In the Lower Hudson Valley and Long Island areas, the weather service predicted 6 to 11 inches. Forecasts called for the snowfall to begin to peak overnight and then taper off early Saturday.

At 8 p.m. the weather service reported accumulations of 3 inches in Somers, New York, in Westchester County; 2.2 inches in Bridgeport, Connecticut; and 1.9 inches in Islip, New York, on Long Island. The totals in New York City were more modest: 0.3 of an inch in Central Park, and 0.1 of an inch at both LaGuardia and Kennedy airports.
Still, the snow was expected to persist through the night at rates of 2 inches an hour or more, suggesting heavy accumulations were still likely. Coming right after Christmas, all that show was complicating one of the year’s busiest travel weekends.