Snow Continues Today in NYC Area, Very Low Barometric Pressure...24" + at Ski Resorts Upstate

The snow continues to fall today across the NYC metro area. This is a slow moving, strong storm. The pressure at midnight in Central Park was 28.97 inches or similar in pressure inside a weak hurricane. Thankfully the winds are not very strong but could gust to 40 mph today. The storm will do a rare loop from NYC westward across northern NJ, down across central and coastal NJ and then back out to sea by Saturday evening. The storm will weaken and will produce light snow and snow showers into Saturday afternoon. Avenues and side streets became snow covered earlier today in Midtown. For most of the day on Thursday the roads were mostly just wet with some slush in the city since the snow fell with temperatures above freezing for most of the day. Snowfall totals include 10 inches in Paramus, NJ; 5 inches in Newark, NJ; 18 inches in New Mildford, NJ and 23 inches in Mountain Lodge, NY. A total of 7.6 inches was measured in Central Park as of 10:30 p.m. on Thursday.

George Wright is a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President of Wright Weather Consulting, Inc. Our website is WrightWeather.com. George is also a meteorologist with Cablevision News 12.