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Central Park Goes 653 Days Without an Inch of Snow [1]
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Date: 2023-11-29
Remember when it used to snow in New York City?
It’s been 653 days and counting since Central Park last measured an inch of snow in a single day. That is almost double the previous record of 383 days, which ended in March 1998.
An especially lackluster winter season last year left sleds untested and only produced 2.3 inches of snow in the park in total, the least amount of snow that has ever been recorded there since record-keeping began in 1869.
One snowstorm that began on Feb. 27 did have a two-day total of almost two inches, but because daily records are recorded from midnight to midnight, less than an inch fell each day, keeping the streak alive. In a normal winter, Central Park will see nearly 24 inches of snow through the season.
Luisana Perez, 28, grew up in Harlem and said while walking through the park on Wednesday that she remembered snow piling up as high as parked cars when she was a child. But last Christmas, she said, she was sweating while wearing a holiday sweater as her only layer.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/nyregion/central-park-snow-record.html
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