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
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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.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for all five boroughs Friday.
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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.
“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.
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