Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
New York City and Philadelphia are just two of the communities across the mid-Atlantic that broke daily snowfall records on Wednesday. For a more elite group that includes New York City, this month is now the snowiest January in history.
With the disruptive storm over, final snow tallies exceed a foot throughout the corridor from Philadelphia to New York City.
Places across southern New England have joined this list with more to follow once the snowstorm finally comes to an end this morning.
The recent storm total snowfall in New York City was 19.0 inches. The 12.3 inches that fell alone on Wednesday broke the day’s long-standing snowfall record of 9 inches from 1871.
The storm also pushed the month’s snow total to 36.0 inches in New York City. That makes this January the snowiest on record, bypassing January 1925 and its 27.4 inches.
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