Also on Long Island, got about 2 feet where I am. Everything is still fairly messy, although the major highways are somewhat decently cleared.
There's a stretch of I-495/Long Island Expressway that's still shut down due to heavy snow - they're trying to plow it out now so it's ready for the morning rush but I have my doubts they'll finish in time.
Seems like New England can't catch a break
Not just New England. New England is all the states north and east of New York, but New York isn't part of New England.
And that's pretty much like saying Barrow, Alaska (northernmost city in the United States) can't catch a break... You live far enough north, you're gonna get snow, it's as simple as that.
International Falls, MN gets it much worse - the record low temperature for any given day on the calendar is held more frequently by that city than any other in the contiguous 48 states. They typically see subzero temperatures in winter with wind chills hitting as low as -40 degrees F. (Which coincidentally is also -40 degrees C...) Anything near the Great Lakes gets whopping amounts of snow in winter.
I think the record in International Falls was a windchill of -70 deg. F. TV news reporters were demonstrating just how cold that is by tossing a boiling hot cup of water into the air - the water hits the ground pretty much frozen. At windchill factors that low, exposed skin will freeze in 30 SECONDS. At -20 it takes about an hour, while at -200 it happens instantly.
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