STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 New York City residents are in the thick of it during what some are referring to as the first true blizzard of the decade, with over a foot of accumulation across Staten Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen reports anywhere between 13 inches locally on Staten Island to 20 inches at Perth Amboy,\u201d shared Bill Deger, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather. \u201cSo this storm is certainly going to be one for the record books. This will be a memorable storm.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some areas of Staten Island are also dealing with snow drifts that can be over 18 inches high. This is due to the intense winds accompanying the storm, which are also making it more difficult for meteorologists to report an accurate total snowfall, shared Deger.<\/p>\n
This storm is what weather experts refer to as a \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d \u2014 a storm that rapidly intensifies in the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf its pressure drops fast enough we categorize it as a bomb cyclone,\u201d said Deger. \u201cThis certainly meets that criteria with how quickly it\u2019s strengthened offshore. We\u2019re seeing the proof in the pudding with how much snow has fallen so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Temperatures as of early Monday morning are below freezing, making the snow thick and wet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe temperature has been kind of hovering around the upper 20s to around 30,\u201d said Deger. \u201cSo it\u2019s not a fine, powdery snow… it\u2019s going to be quite the job to clean up and remove the snow after the storm.\u201d<\/p>\n
When will snow stop in NYC?<\/p>\n
So when is this record storm coming to an end? <\/p>\n
According to Deger, there are still a few more hours to go in regard to snowfall. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe snow will start to lose its intensity this afternoon. After lunchtime, we\u2019re really done with a lot of the accumulation,\u201d he said. \u201cAt that point, maybe another inch or so on top of what we\u2019ve already had. It stays kind of a heavy, wet snow right up until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 New York City residents are in the thick of it during what some are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-142714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}