The snowstorm early Thursday didn’t show up as advertised in New York City and nearby New Jersey.
The 12 to 18 inches that was predicted for much the area generally ended up being more like six or seven.
James Tomasini, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the track of the storm shifted. “If it tracked closer to the coast that was what was gonna be the result,” he said, “so that’s why totals were on the lower end for some areas of what we had forecast. If the low tracked a little bit further south of us then our area would have been seeing those bigger totals.”
That shift meant upstate New York got buried in snow -- 40 inches near Syracuse -- and Governor Cuomo
declared a state of emergency in 18 upstate counties.
Tomasini said it’s not expected to be too bad a winter here. “We have a greater chance of being warmer than average and precip-wise we’re right in the middle of (the range) for seeing average precipitation.”