New York, NY Weather
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Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 11am and 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 80. South wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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Last updated Sun, Aug 23, 7:21 AM 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.