Snowiest Day On Record: Remembering The Storm That Buried NYC

NEW YORK CITY — There's still time for the winter of 2019-20 to wreak a snowy vengeance, but the couple of inches it's produced so far fall a long way short of the city's snowiest on record — a snowcopalypse which is still a recent memory.

Almost exactly four years ago, Central Park — and the rest of New York City — was buried under 27.3 inches of the white stuff.

Records kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show there has never been a heavier snowfall than the one which came in that Jan. 23 2016 storm.

With two months of winter left, there are plenty of chances to break that record, though there's no sign of it in the forecast for the next few days. The Farmers' Almanac has, however, predicted that this would turn out to be a brutal winter.

Here's the short term National Weather Service prediction for NYC:

Saturday
Rain, mainly after 8am. High near 48. Wind chill values between 30 and 40 early. Northeast wind 11 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

Saturday Night
Rain, mainly before 9pm. Low around 36. North wind around 9 mph becoming west after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

Sunday
Partly sunny, with a high near 45. West wind 10 to 14 mph.

Sunday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 34.

Monday
Partly sunny, with a high near 44.

Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.

Tuesday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 42.

Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 30.