Snow is approaching New York and the region

Big White Apple. The New York metropolitan area, home to millions of residents, was blanketed in thick snow on Tuesday, especially in the suburbs, leading to school closures, government closures and transportation disruptions. The last snow episode in New York dates back to January 16, ending 700 days without snow, and much heavier snow on Tuesday was predicted by the US weather forecast.

Since dawn, “one to two inches (2.5 to 5 cm) of snow per hour have fallen in certain areas of the region” of the New York metropolitan area, especially in the residential suburbs of Westchester County, north of the city. Sandwiched between the Atlantic and the Hudson River, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Some locations in Westchester are seeing at least 6 inches of snow.

The weather forecast predicts the severe weather will move south over the city and the Long Island Peninsula east of the metropolitan area. Manhattan and Brooklyn, two of New York City’s five boroughs, are currently experiencing worse snowfall than the suburbs.

The western suburbs were particularly hard hit

The NWS advises on its X (formerly Twitter) account that motorists drive “with extreme caution” or “simply avoid traveling if possible this morning.” One New York airport, LaGuardia, warned on its X account that “weather conditions are causing flight disruptions.”

The snowfall is even more impressive in the western suburbs along the New York-New Jersey border, on both sides of the Hudson, where schools, courts and government offices are also closed and roads are nearly empty. New York City is home to about 8.5 million residents, plus millions more in the northern suburbs of Westchester, western and southern New Jersey, and eastern Long Island.

On Christmas Day 2022, the “blizzard of the century” and more than a meter of snow in the north and west of the vast, largely rural New York state caused dozens of deaths, especially in the large city of Buffalo on the Canadian border. , hundreds of miles northwest of New York City. 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.