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New York City’s driest and warmest winter has now broken a record for the longest snowless season, surpassing the record previously set by the winter of 1972-73.
On Sunday, the Big Apple officially broke the record for the longest season without measurable snow, with the last snowfall being recorded on March 9, 2022.
Other I-95 cities like Boston and Philadelphia have similarly reported a drier and warmer-than-usual winter with the latter not seeing more one-tenth of an inch from November 1.
Boston has seen just over a quarter of its average dust over the same period.
New York City’s driest and warmest winter has now broken a record for the longest snowless season, surpassing the record previously set by the winter of 1972-73.
This photo was taken one year ago on January 29, 2022. The last snowfall in New York City was recorded on March 9, 2022.
The Big Apple is ready to see snow, but the flurries turn to rain before they hit the ground in the famous city.
“The record for the last measurable snowfall is today, and obviously, we’re going to get too hot to see anything resembling snow,” Fox Weather meteorologist Christopher Tate said. The new post office.
“The last recorded first snowfall is January 29, 1973, and we’ll break it today because we won’t see any snow today,” Tate said.
For snow to fall, the air must be cold enough to turn the precipitation into snow.
New York City has yet to experience those conditions this year.
“It’s been a very, very, very mild winter for New York City this season. It’s been so unusually warm this winter so far,’ Tate said.
It’s been an unusually dry season for the Big Apple
No measurable snow has fallen as of January 29.
It’s a marked change from typical city weather conditions.
“The times we’ve had wet, it’s been too hot to bear anything other than the three times we’ve seen gusts this season,” he continued.
According to the Weather Channel, the last time New York City saw measurable snow was March 9, 2022.
It’s completely out of the ordinary for the Big Apple, which typically hits mid-December.
Measurable snow is considered anything greater than one-tenth of an inch, according to the National Metereological Service.
However, there is a chance that New York City will finally see snow next month.
February is usually the month with the most snow in the city.
“There are some very, very early indications that there might be something at the end of this week or early next week,” Tate said.
Early indications show snow could fall in February, according to a Fox meteorologist
February is traditionally the snowiest season in the Big Apple
A New York City with no snow this week. The city saw its first gust of the season on Wednesday.
New Yorkers take cover during the first snow flurry of the season
Outside of New York, cities along Interstate 95, which runs from Maine to Florida, have also run out of measurable snowfall so far this winter.
Along with Boston and Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore, Maryland have also seen little to no snow this season.
Newark, New Jersey, has seen only a tenth of an inch so far.
Boston has seen about seven inches of snow since November, but that’s well below the thirty-year average of about 24 inches.
The problem is also affecting ski resorts in the northeast.
What is normally considered ‘high season’ for the ski season in states like Maine and Vermont, has been shaken by warmer temperatures.
“Recently, it just hasn’t been cold enough for many ski resorts to produce snow effectively,” Spencer Spellman, senior editor at On The Snow, told Fox Weather.
Baltimore and Washington also tend to see snowfall in mid-December, but with their more southerly locations, late-season snowfall is more common. The two cities have gone through February with no snow before.
The last time Philadelphia left was February 3, except for the winter of 1972-73, when no appreciable snow fell.
In upstate New York, snowfall has also been unusually low.
In Syracuse, typically one of the snowiest cities in the country, 24 inches fell this winter, which is three feet less than the average for this part of winter.
Rochester has seen just 15 inches, well below the 50 inches it normally sees in mid-January.
Martin Haslinger removes snow from the front of his Buffalo home in December
But in nearby Buffalo, record snowfalls have hit the city all year long.
More than 100 inches of snow have fallen on the city in the course of a series of violent snowstorms that buried the city in December.
More than half of that snowfall came in a single storm last month.
The city normally sees around 60 inches of snow at this time of winter.
The Southwest has also seen unusual snowfall, including in Reno, Nevada, where at least 18 inches have fallen, already exceeding its 30-year average of 12.2 inches.
The North Lake Tahoe area saw about 18 feet of snow in December, the most accumulation that month in 142 years.
And while it hasn’t turned to snow, California has been continually submerged in a deluge of rain and relentless flooding in recent weeks.