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NYC Set to Break Weather Records 


A man runs over the Brooklyn Bridge during morning snow in Manhattan, New York City, Dec. 17, 2016.
A man runs over the Brooklyn Bridge during morning snow in Manhattan, New York City, Dec. 17, 2016.

New York City is known for many things and now is breaking some weather records.

Dubbed the city that never sleeps or the big apple, New York has broken a 50-year record — set on January 29, 1973 — for its latest-ever measurable winter snowfall.

Snow is highly unlikely Monday with temperatures expected to reach 10.5 degrees Celsius with mostly sunny conditions expected.

A few days later, the city could also break another record — 332 days without measurable snow, a record set on December 15, 2020.

The fallout from climate change? Probably.

But the snow may come yet. February is a notoriously unpredictable weather month and like the American musician Prince’s well known song goes... sometimes it snows in April.

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