Snow tapers; totals reach 7 inches
South Country Road in Bellport after overnight snow on Saturday. Credit: Michael A. Rupolo Sr.
Travel is expected to be dangerous throughout Saturday as snow-covered roads are met with frigid temperatures.
The National Weather Service, in a special weather statement issued at 6:20 a.m., urged “extra caution if you must travel this morning.” Temperatures remained below freezing before sunrise on Long Island.
The agency said snow will taper off to flurries and that “Little to no additional snow accumulation is expected.”
Parts of Long Island received nearly 7 inches of snowfall from the late-December storm.
A public measurement in North Patchogue, as of 1:09 a.m., tallied 6.9 inches, according to the NWS snowfall report issued at 6:18 a.m. In Bohemia, an early-morning measurement registered 5.6 inches, while the NWS climate station at Islip Airport counted 5.6 inches at midnight.
In Nassau County, totals were lower. A Centre Island measurement at 5:29 a.m. registered 4 inches, matching an early-morning reading in Levittown, according to the NWS snowfall report.
The NWS said its Central Park station measured 4.3 inches of snowfall as of 7 a.m., making it the first time a storm has delivered more than 4 inches of accumulation since a system dropped 8.3 inches Jan. 28-29, 2022.
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