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February 26, 2010
Westchester County, New York

33-hour snowstorm buries New York City under 2 feet of snow; 37 inches reported in nearby New Brunswick, N.J.

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Tom Skilling

 on February 26, 2010 11:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It's a first for New Yorkers. Nothing like the parade of megasnows which have lambasted the Big Apple in February has happened before. The latest storm, one of three which have hit the region in just the past month, roared into the city late Wednesday on 30 to 40 mph winds and generated 33 hours of uninterrupted, often heavy snowfall. When the snow finally broke late Friday, New York had been smothered by 21 inches of snow while just across the Hudson River in New Brunswick, N.J., the tally hit an astounding 37 inches. Sparta in northwest New Jersey came in a close second recording 33" of snow. To the northwest in the Catskill Mountain community of Woodridge in southeast New York, an off-the-charts 46.9" of snow had occurred. In effect, more than a season's worth of snow had fallen with a single storm over a day and a half's time. New York City's Central Park February tally of 37" made it the city's single snowiest month ever. The total eclipsed the previous single-month record of 30.5" set in March 1896. Snow records in New York City extend back to 1969.

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