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Southern Brooklyn, parts of Staten Island got more snow than expected overnight

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Michelle Bocanegra

Published Feb 17, 2024

Modified Feb 17, 2024

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The Prospect Park Boathouse covered in snow.

 

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Published Feb 17, 2024

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Some areas of the city woke up to heavy snowfall Saturday morning.

Southern Brooklyn and parts of Staten Island got substantially more snow than anticipated Friday into Saturday morning, with Coney Island recording nearly 10 inches of snow overnight, according to the National Weather Service.

Parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island were hit upwards of seven inches of snow overnight

Photo by Stephen Rex Brown

Coney Island recorded 9.9 inches of snow shortly before 7 a.m Saturday, far outpacing the initial two to four inches predicted for the New York City metropolitan area, according to the latest NWS snow totals.

The agency’s New Dorp site on Staten Island recorded just shy of nine inches of snow before 6 a.m. Saturday, with Tottenville’s accumulations close behind at roughly eight inches.

A view of Washington Avenue in Crown Heights following a storm.

Photo by Josefa Velasquez

JFK Airport in Queens also recorded higher amounts of snow than expected with just over six inches as of Saturday morning. Meanwhile, other areas — like Central Park in Manhattan — hewed closer to the anticipated snow accumulations.

“Basically the heaviest snow scraped southern and southwestern parts of the area and the band was not as strong as you got up into northern sections,” said Jay Engle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

The Adams administration issued a citywide travel advisory Friday into Saturday and a winter weather advisory for Staten Island, which was anticipating as much as three inches of snow at the time.

"There is still more to do, but thousands of Sanitation Workers worked all night and thousands more are working all day to make sure every highway, street, and bike lane is salted and plowed - multiple times if needed," said Joshua Goodman, a Sanitation Department spokesperson.

“Parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn got SEVEN INCHES OF SNOW, barely a day after forecasts called for ‘one to two,” the city’s Sanitation Department said in a post on social media Saturday.

Parts of Long Island, Westchester County and northeast New Jersey stayed closer to predicted amounts, while a National Weather Service site in Rockland County recorded an inch and a half of accumulated snow into Saturday morning.

This story was updated to include a comment from the city's Sanitation Department.

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