Well, that was snow disappointing.<\/p>\n
The Big Apple only received a third of the predicted winter wonderland dumping \u2014 but enough precipitation still fell to snarl hundreds of fliers\u2019 holiday plans.<\/a><\/p>\n New Yorkers woke up Saturday morning to a roughly 4-inch blanket, a far cry from the nearly 11-inch pummeling city officials had warned was incoming.<\/p>\n The Big Apple was blanketed in roughly 4 inches of snow overnight Friday into Saturday. TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n As much as 11 inches was originally predicted for the five boroughs. William Farrington<\/p>\n \u201cThe storm was going into a lot of cold air, which is dense. It kind of slows things down quite a bit,\u201d explained Accuweather meteorologist Melissa Constancer.<\/p>\n New York\u2019s sharp change in forecast came around 9 p.m. Friday, when the city\u2019s Emergency Management department alerted<\/a> that between just 2 and 5 inches were predicted to fall throughout the five boroughs.<\/p>\n Just three hours prior, officials were forecasting between 7 and 11 inches \u2014 which would have been the\u00a0biggest snowstorm since\u00a0a 16.8 inches came down in Central Park in 2021.<\/p>\n New York\u2019s sharp change in forecast came around 9 p.m. Friday. Xinhua\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n The city\u2019s Emergency Management department alerted that between just 2 and 5 inches were predicted to fall throughout the five boroughs. Robert Miller<\/p>\n \u201cThe storm was going into a lot of cold air, which is dense. It kind of slows things down quite a bit,\u201d explained Accuweather meteorologist Melissa Constancer. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n Queens received the most snow overnight, with 4.6 inches\u00a0recorded in Howard Beach\u00a0as of 7 a.m., according to\u00a0the National Weather Service.<\/a><\/p>\n But the other boroughs were just a hair behind, with Fordham, Williamsburg and Central Park each measuring 4.3 inches.<\/p>\n Flurries were expected to continue through 11 a.m., though they weren\u2019t expected to significantly contribute additional inches to the snowfall totals.<\/p>\n Brooklynite Jen Ziegler broke out her cross country skis to commute to her coffee shop, Cafe Martin on Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n \u201cUsually I bike, but the roads looked scary. But then once I got out there I realized I could have ridden my bike,\u201d Ziegler said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the skiing was fun! It\u2019s a rare opportunity in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n The Department of Sanitation planned to continue to salt and plow roads throughout the day, with 700 salt spreaders already dispatched.<\/p>\n People still managed to enjoy the snowfall. TOMAS E. GASTON<\/p>\n \u201c4.3 inches of snow in New York City at the snowiest January 28th to January 29th of 2022. It got 8.3in there in Central Park,\u201d said Constancer.<\/p>\n Nassau County got much of the same snowfall as the Big Apple, while Suffolk got nearly double in some places. Babylon and Orient logged the most with 7.5 inches each.<\/p>\n Connecticut got the biggest dousing in the wider metro area, with New Fairfield measuring 9 inches at 4 a.m.<\/p>\n All three metro airports were hit with between 4.1 and 4.3 inches \u2014 just enough to cancel hundreds of flights and strand thousands of fliers.<\/p>\n