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  • Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, 68.7m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Humid Continental Climate (Dfa / Dfb)
  • Location: Watford, Hertfordshire, 68.7m ASL

New york city is surrounded on 3 sides with water plus its a city with it being mostly buildings!

can somebody please explain how they get snow there? thanks! :):acute:

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  • Location: Maidstone, Kent
  • Location: Maidstone, Kent

It's gets extremely cold, and the lakes and rivers help the snow storms, i.e lake effect snow, which bring NYC's worst snowfalls, had it whilst i was out there and dumped about 6 inches in an hour.

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  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL
  • Location: Poole, Dorset 42m ASL

I've done the New York thing on a few winters and experienced the weather there in December.

It can get cold, and with the airflow from Canada meeting a north bound tracking low up the eastern seabord, called a Nor'easter, it's a recipe for copious amounts of snow.

I've seen 14" of snow in Central Park from such a situation.

Without wishing to sound precocious Lake effect snow is much further North, and not the cause for snow in central NY city.

Check out

http://nsidc.org/snow/blizzard/questions.html

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/aly/Past/WINTER.htm

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