Nor’easter Pummels Eastern Seaboard With Heavy Snow

Here in New Haven, we braced for 7-15" and got...a dusting, like confectioners' sugar. It was almost all melted by 10 AM. I'm not complaining.

It's nice to read a short article that just records people going about their regular lives rather than bombs going off in Austin and the stupidity in DC. Thanks for reminding us that there are ordinary people out there going about their daily lives. Our view of the world is getting skewed because every headline is about death, destruction and mayhem (Not a complaint. That's why they call it news). We could use more good news or "no news" stories. Maybe tell short stories of ordinary people on the front page every day for an entire year? Just to remind us that it's not all armageddon (although that's probably where we're headed). It might lower everyone's anxiety level and maybe remind us that we're human and should be talking to each other.

it rained today here in Las Vegas, 4th time this year. I think we're done for 2018

Why were dogs able to go shoeless for millennia, and now suddenly they need shoes?

I sympathize, I really do.

In the Uk, they are blaming the Russians for their strange weather pattern. Is the USA will follow their claims?

As Uncle Weatherbee use to say back in the 1950's " Whether the weather is hot or whether the weather is cold, there will be weather whether or not

Can Kevin tell us what camera settings he used to take that photograph in Brooklyn?

Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

Snowing in Rockland County since 9:30 this morning and all we have is 4 inches. One wonders why weather people are the butt of jokes.

I particularly love the new language. The following advice comes from the National Weather Service 'Winter Storm Warning' for New York City: "Stay Indoors." Good grief. Have we become weak.

All the hullaballoo about this snow, yet my ac has nary an inch atop it. The streets of the city didn't seem particularly snow bound either. Yes it was coming down, but not sticking, except in the park. So either I"m dreaming, or this so called snowstorm never made it to NYC with nearly the predicted force, the same as the last 3. The local weather forecasters need to justify their existence so we get reports as if the end of the world was coming. Enough hyperbole.

Add my voice to the chorus praising the photographs for this story. They are quite lovely and make me homesick for Brooklyn.

NYC schools were closed today but they are scheduled to open tomorrow. Insane. Now I understand that predicting weather is an imperfect science but the huge snow now on the ground dictates that schools be closed tomorrow.

The people in charge seem far more prepared AND far more hyperbolic, when it comes to winter precipitation, than years ago. Maybe the hyperbole is part of the preparation - but for this admitted bellyacher it gets tiresome to be inundated with alerts and warnings for every single snowstorm.

It was actually a surprisingly pretty and gentle snow. Plus, the subways are running well (and half-empty to boot). Glad DeBlasio and Cuomo didn't panic and shut down the trains. NYC can handle this!

This so called storm was a total bust in CT. Schools closed, parking bans, planes and trains cancelled and ZERO snow.

Thanks for the terrific storm coverage. Local news doesn't always get the credit it deserves but millions of people depend upon it.

I still see several hotel rooms throughout the city via Hotel Tonight/Kayak. Do these reporters not fact-check the quotes they get? Did they assist the travelers with info on the various websites/apps they could use to find a hotel once they got their quote? My impression from just reading this article is that there are no hotel rooms left (and will be recorded in the archives as such) when it is actually not true.

At the same time that New Yorkers are carrying on about this weather, the Arctic sea ice is at an historic low. If that is repeated the world has changed, for centuries if not forever. Some perspective people. Would winters with no snow ever be an improvement or a disaster? Think carefully before answering.

Give me a snowy day in the city over a sunny day in Seattle anytime...

such a lot of media hysterics over a little snow and a good deal of slush.

It's really cute how people on the East Coast shovel their driveways when it snows a few inches. Here in the Rockies, we just, you know, drive over it.

AmI the only one who thought the photographs accompanying this article were uncommonly beautiful?

Suck it up. It's March. It's still winter. It snows. Get up earlier, get home later. It's not a disaster.

Nice photo of tourons at the White House.

Whoever wrote this needs a reality check. Spring snow storms have not been rare in the last 10 years. March has been a solidly winter month in much of the East in recent years. For example, last year March in Boston was colder than December or January or February, which is unbelievable!

The photos accompanying this article deserve a shout-out -- Kevin Hagen's image of the person with a pink umbrella and Ramsay de Give's photos of Broadway and lower Manhattan in particular are stunning. Thanks, guys.

The weather is hearing the same stuff from CNN over and over and over so much that it thinks it is still three weeks ago and that it hasn't unloaded on people in the Northeast.

The photos for this article don't match up with the text. All the photos that show the pavement show only a dusting of snow. And yet the text speaks of "the fourth serious snow to wallop the Northeast," etc. Here in Connecticut, we've got ... nothing. The roads are wet but black. The snow has been intermittent and light. And I'm in Ridgefield, so named for the "ridge" on which it sits, a ridge that's the first significant rise in altitude from the Connecticut coast. That rise causes the clouds to carry their precipitation until they reach Ridgefield and then dump it, with the result that we usually get more snow than the rest of Fairfield County, both to the north and south. What happened with this storm? Did it change course and blow out to sea? How about an edit of this article to answer that question?

"nor easter", nor passover, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail ..............

Public schools were closed for this?! I realize it's cute to look for pine cones, but shouldn't 8 year-old Elliot be in science class learning about pine cones? Or, better yet, how to read weather forecasts? What's America coming to? Back in the day ....

Many readers have taken issue with our calling a spring snowstorm “rare.” Snow in March is not rare, but a significant snow once *spring* has started is pretty unusual – I can only remember a few in my lifetime. I couldn’t find records of how often it happens, but these record snowfalls by date give you a sense: 3/21: 7” 1956 (we will probably break this today) 3/22: 9” 1957 3/23: 4.5” 1896 3/24: 1” 1956 3/25: 2” 1872 3/26: 1” 1924 3/27: 1” 1886 3/28: 1.5” 1984 3/29: 4” 1970 3/30: 4.5” 1883 3/31: 3” 1890 4/1: 8.5” 1924 4/2: 1” 1965 4/3: 10” 1915 4/4: 2.5” 1957 4/5: 6.5” 1944 4/6: 10” 1982 4/7: 4” 2003 4/8: 4” 1956 4/9: 6” 1917 source: https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/Almanacs/nyc/nycmar.pdf https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/Almanacs/nyc/nycapr.pdf

Snow snow snow falling in Spring over conifers and their pines in Central Park brief memories Of winter time.

For once those of us living above the forty ninth parallel aren't looking at photos of cherry blossoms in bloom and wondering how only a few hundred miles could make such a difference. Nevertheless there's nothing like a great late in the season snowfall - it won't stay on the ground long, th kids will love it, so enjoy!

This is just patently unfair - you guys out East get 4 snow days in as many weeks. The sloppy-gloopy stuff you're getting now (I know I lived in Ithaca) is impossible to shovel - don't try - let Mother Nature melt it for you. Sit back and enjoy a beer you lucky's. :)

So where's the snow? Nothing going on here, Providence RI at 3:30PM. I guess the storm has been 'delayed'.

We don't get much snow each winter in Portland, but a good snow can shut down the city and there is nothing better than a work day with a good excuse to kick back and relax. Yeah, we pay for it later, but who cares when it's snowing. Something for you east coasters (I used to be one) to listen to from Matt Pond PA. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiP6JhZ_Lis

One would think we had re-entered the Ice Age. A woman from Miami Beach moved to Kennett Square, PA and infers this weather is extreme but I can remember snows in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's that were similar in Feb/March in PA, IL, ME, NY. I wonder how much all of this hype is driven by media?

What big snow storm in New York City ??? What Blizzard ??? Just more FAKE News. Someone should tell the media you cannot have a snow storm when the temperature is above freezing. I'm looking out my Manhattan window right now. NO snow on sidewalks. NO snow on roads. Just wet as when it rains. Light flurries falling having no impact. No wind either. Blizzard conditions ??? NOT in New York City. Time to tell the truth weather people.

Snow in March is not that rare at all.

"A rare spring snowstorm"? Anyone at the NY Times research department? We had a snowstorm here in NYC exactly one year ago.

Plowing services and ski areas are loving it. "There's no business like snow business!"

The amount of snow we've had this March is not normal; 3 noreasters in 2 weeks time is unheard of. Why do people try to say this happens all the time? It definitely doesn't.

I'm further west and it's snowing here and it's pretty and not at all as devastating as in the NE--but people are whining and bitching and I'm thinking we will all be longing for this weather in July/August/September when it's 95 degrees with 80 percent humidity. So, take a day off, go walk and play in the snow. We're going to miss it soon enough.

So far plenty of snow, melting on contact. Bust for a snow day.

You all are welcome to the balmy shores of Lake Michigan - Chicago - (as long as you don't call it "Chi Town"...to rest up watching the tulips struggle to come up and stay alive... It's not Key West here, but it's better than them Nor'Easters...eh? Pass around the clam chowda...

OK, moment of truth. It's 5:30 PM, and I'm on the Connecticut coast 65 miles from NYC. It's been snowing all day, but the roads are still clear because every flake has melted as soon as it landed. There is just a dusting on the lawns. It may get a little windy later on, but the snow seems to be tapering off. Of course, we may get a foot over night, you never know....

I say alllllright! Bring it on! The 90 plus degree dog day heat of summer will be upon us soon enough so I'm determined to enjoy these cooler spring waves here in central NC for as long as I can. We barely have a real spring any more as it is.

I'm so jealous. I wish the storm would track up this way. I'd be willing to take all the snow too.

My husband and I moved from Miami Beach in early January to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania where we are near family. (My husband has significant health problems and we are well into our seventies.) I hear people say that what we have experienced of cold and snow and more snow is not the norm. But as we near April, the extended forecast suggests that spring is way off. Brrrr

This is not a meteorological rare event by any means. Snow in March is actually common. Just a few years back, school was canceled due to around a foot of snow in an April snowstorm. The students went to school through the end of June that year.

We had a lot more in spring -- from the NYT -- A heavy snow creates extraordinary difficulties in a city like New York. The 13.5-inch fall that arrived Sunday and Monday on top of 4.6 inches on Friday was no exception. "https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/03/22/84881632.html"

Funny how this is being described as "rare". For folks who are not familiar with the NYC area in springtime, what "rare" means in this case is "three or four every few years". We've had snow on Easter a few times, and there's usually at least some sort of flurries in the last week of March, which is the first week or so of Spring. NYC has the weird attributes of being a humid, subtropical climate, adjacent to the Atlantic but protected from it by Staten Island (thanks Staten Island!), and with additional local weirdness like ground temperatures far higher than they should be (due to concrete and underground systems) and thus more powerful thermal updrafts. So our weather here has always included violent storms, and snow in Spring and Fall both (never in Summer, unlike, say, Colorado). We're getting pummeled by one today as usual, and we will next year or the year after that, until climate change eliminates non-Winter snow hereabouts.

And why aren’t the Broadway shows cancelled? Why money, of course! The producers won’t be able to get their money from insurance unless the subway is shut down. So even if there’s a state of emergency we all go in. Good luck to my coworkers who need to get back at 11 PM to New Jersey, or Long Island, or upstate. Hopefully it doesn’t take somebody getting hurt for them to change this policy.

Storms have a way of taking us out of ourselves, removing us from our daily struggles and opening a larger world, because the danger is real, we connect deeper with our fellow humanity. This just happened to me on the way to the supermarket. As i was walking up the block, the sidewalk covered with snow in front of a closed school, i saw an old man walking with a cane, coming towards me. He slipped and fell, landing hard on his elbow and shoulder, i went to help him, and as i was working to get him back on his feet, a young black man about 24 years old came to help us, and then another man who seemed an immigrant from eastern Europe, WE ALL WORKED TOGETHER to get the man back on his feet, the young man who had a good hold of him, and was the strongest of our trio, assured the man that " he would not let him fall." Back on his feet and a bit wobbly, we asked the man if he needed further assistance, he said that he had to cross the street to get his Wife's prescription at the pharmacy across the street. " Come, take my arm, i will walk you over." the immigrant said, and thats the last i saw of the old man, walking across the street with this man from eastern Europe. None of us knew each other, we all came from different walks of life, but in a pitch, with somebody in trouble we came together as a group. Thinking about this later i realized that this who we really are, all human, all having a deeper understanding of the struggle of life, here on a city sidewalk united as one.

I adore Mother Nature. Bring on a foot or more of the white stuff.

The Week of Stormy!

After this "four’easter", I can't help but think the weather gods are NOT Yankee nor Mets fans. Enough already with the snow. A baseball fan shouldn't have to wear a snowmobile suit on opening day! The only thing more impressive than these photographs is the spirit and determination of a New Yorker!!

This must be the real thing. It's a very rare occasion when New York City is slated to get more snow than Boston!