NYC Snow: Flurries Arrive Hours Ahead Of Schedule

NEW YORK CITY — The season's first snow arrived hours ahead of schedule as temperatures dropped and wet weather rolled in.

Snowflakes began falling in Brooklyn and Manhattan about noon, two hours before the National Weather Service predicted the white stuff would hit the city.

The City issued a Snow Alert that began at 10 a.m. — even though less than an inch of snow was predicted to stick — in what Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia said Monday was an abundance of caution.

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"Forecasts change significantly back and forth," Garcia said. "It can go from very innocuous to significant."

The flakes comes almost exactly one year after a storm, predicted as flurries, slammed the city with six inches of snow and wreaked havoc across the city.

The Sanitation Department has a team of 4,300 people, 725 salt spreaders and 318,000 tons of salt ready at the ready and will communicate regularly with the Department of Education with weather updates.

New Yorkers took to Twitter to celebrate the first snowfall.

Me: it’s not going to snow my coworker [NAME REDACTED] is crazy.
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— Morgan does NaNo 11,709 words (@sugadadchii) November 12, 2019

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