New York, NY weather
Today 64° / 64°
Today's Forecast
Mostly clear, with a low around 64. South wind 3 to 8 mph.
7-Day Outlook
Data from the National Weather Service
Last updated Tue, Sep 15, 6:45 PM UTC
Winter in New York
New York averages 25 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991–2020 climate normals - a moderate snow place. A handful of accumulating storms a year. Districts close for the larger ones.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 25 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 4 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over New York
The nearest radiosonde launch is Upton, about 60 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.