Event Summary

This late season snowstorm produced widespread snowfall amounts of 4 to 7 inches in New York City and Long Island. This included about a 4 hour period on the afternoon of Monday, April 7th during which heavy snow fell at rates of an inch or more per hour. Local impacts from the storm included over 300 cancelled flights at LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports, a crippled mass transit system, numerous traffic accidents on area roadways and downed tree limbs in the vicinity of Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan.