News Day reported on the single day record of 26.6 inches of snow that fell on Central Park, Saturday, January 23rd. The National Weather Service says the overall accumulation — 26.8 inches — is the second-most for a single storm in city history.
Central Park lost out on the reord by two-tenths of an inch of the city's accumulation that fell on Saturday, surpassing the previous one-day mark of 24.1 inches on Feb. 12, 2006.
Officials say the total of 26.8 inches that fell in Central Park during the storm is the second-most since officials began keeping snowfall records in 1869. That narrowly misses tying the previous record of 26.9 inches from February 2006.
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