Let it snow, let it snow …
New York will get walloped by its heaviest snowstorm in years — with some parts of the Big Apple expected to see as much as 11 inches, forecasters and officials said.
More than half of the Empire State was placed under a state of emergency as the white stuff started falling just before 5 p.m. on Friday.
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The storm was then expected to intensify, with more than two inches set to fall per hour at times, according to the New York National Weather Service (NWS) — which issued a weather storm warning for the the city from 4 p.m. Friday through 1 p.m. Saturday.
“New Yorkers should prepare for a significant snow event, beginning this afternoon and continuing into Saturday. Our current forecast is telling us we could get a range of 6 to 9 inches of accumulation citywide, and could be even more in Northeast Queens and northern New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams said Friday.
Should the Big Apple be blanketed with 9 inches, the snowfall would be the most since a whopping 16.8 inches in Central Park across two days in late January into February 2021, Accuweather told The Post.
The last time a storm came close to dropping that much snowfall was back in 2022, when 8.5 inches fell.
That’s still a far cry from any records, however. The most snowfall New York City has ever seen on Dec. 26 was way back in 1947, when the city was hammered with 26.1 inches.
Northeast Queens was expected to get the biggest dump in Friday’s storm — with as much as 11 inches predicted for the sections of the World’s Borough, Adams said.
Parts of the Bronx could get almost 8 inches, with some of Brooklyn, including Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay, seeing around 6.6 inches, according to the NWS’ precipitation portal.