As of Tuesday morning, Mattituck recorded the most snowfall, with 24.8 inches reported. Totals from 1949-2008 courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Totals from 2008 onward courtesy of the National Weather Service. Nassau County was hit with 12 to 18 inches of snow, while some parts of Suffolk saw more than 20 inches. A single-month record was recently set in February 2013 when 35.8 inches touched the ground, beating out January 2011’s 35.7 inches by a hair. ’97-’98 saw the least snow ever on the Island with a total of only 4.5 inches two years earlier, however, Long Island had its most snow-laden winter with 90.75 inches. Snowfall on Long Island can vary wildly from winter to winter, with a historic high of 90.75 inches and a historic low of just 4.5 inches occurring withing. It was more than two decades before that number dropped back into the single digits, but since 1995 there have been five winters on record under the 10” mark. Since Brookhaven National Labs first started recording yearly snow accumulation in the late 1940s, the first time the Island saw fewer than 10 inches of snow was in the winter of ‘72-’73. Daily snow observations from GHCN stations are available using the pulldown menus below to select the state, month, and year of interest for either snowfall. A heavier band of snow develops from far northern Sussex County into Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster. For decades the Island has seen fluctuations in total snowfall vary greatly from one year to the next-where several feet might drop one winter there could only be several inches the next. The heaviest rain shifts to the East End of Long Island. Portions of Eastern Massachusetts could experience two feet of snow, forecasters said. It is often said that no two snowflakes are alike, and just like the individual bits of frozen water that fall from the sky during the colder months, no two winters on Long Island are identical. Nassau's Glen Cove had the highest snowfall total 9.3 inches besting Suffolk's Setauket-East Setauket, where 8.7 inches had fallen, according to the National Weather Service. Blizzard conditions were expected from Long Island through much of coastal New England over the weekend.
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