(New York) New York ended a “long streak” of 700 days without snow on Tuesday with four centimeters of white coat covering the famous Central Park and Brooklyn borough.
The US Weather Service (NWS) for the state and city of New York even announced on X that the “long streak” of 701 days without “an inch (2.5 cm) of snow in Central Park” had taken ” END “.
As of 7 a.m. local time, there was at least 1.4 inches (3.5 cm) of snow accumulated on the immense green lung of Manhattan Island.
The other boroughs of New York, such as the gigantic Brooklyn, were also covered in a white coat reminiscent of the winters of the largest city in the United States, with traditionally very marked seasons.
After a long weekend, snowfall during the night from Monday to Tuesday caused some transportation disruptions and school closures north of New York, in the residential county of Westminster.
The megacity and its 8.5 million souls – to which are added the millions of inhabitants of the New York suburbs of the state of New Jersey, the Long Island peninsula and Westminster County – had not seen significant snowfall for almost two years.
More than a year ago, at Christmas 2022, the “blizzard of the century” and more than a meter of snow in the north and west of the immense, partly rural state of New York caused dozens of deaths, notably in the large city of Buffalo on the Canadian border.
In the United States and the rest of the world, the frequency, intensity, and unpredictability of summer and winter weather are increasing due to climate change.