New York’s Snow Giants: The City’s Five Heaviest Winter Storms Since 1869

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New York’s Snow Giants: The City’s Five Heaviest Winter Storms Since 1869
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New York City is bracing for a weekend storm forecast to drop 12–20 inches (potentially 24+), with a blizzard warning—the first since 2017—while the piece recalls the five largest NYC snowstorms since 1869: 2016’s 27.5 inches; 2006’s 26.9 inches; 1947’s 26.4 inches; 1888’s 21 inches; and 2010’s 20.9 inches, noting mass outages, travel disruptions, and fatalities in several storms.

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