NWS adjusts curiously low snowfall totals at Central Park
For years now, the meteorological community has been aware that Central Park usually reports snowfall totals lower than its surroundings. For reasons not completely known, surrounding stations at Newark, LaGuardia, and Teterboro Airports almost always seem to report higher snowfall totals. Even local, public reports in Midtown and Lower Manhattan seem to consistently come in higher than the Central Park Zoo. This year, the National Weather Service took to the task and edited the official Central Park reports to better match surrounding data.
Snowfall amounts from three separate storms this winter:
January 6th, 2015: Snowfall total adjusted from 0.5″ to 1.0″ (+0.5″)
January 24th, 2015: Snowfall total adjusted from 2.5″ to 3.6″ (+1.1″)
February 2nd, 2015: Snowfall total adjusted from 3.3″ to 5.0″ (+1.7″)