By Jason Tucker and Mariel S. Clark
DNAinfo Staff
MANHATTAN — With more than four-and-a-half feet of snow, this winter is already the sixth snowiest season on record — and there are still plenty of potential snow days to go.
As of January 27, 56.1 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park this season, according to the National Weather Service. Both Friday and Saturday's forecasts call for a chance of snow showers and could be enough to beat the record, meteorologists said.
Big storms like the Dec. 26 blizzard and Wednesday and Thursday's 19-inch snowfall helped make this season one for the record books.
The storms were already enough to rocket the winter into the No. 6 spot but with plenty of winter left, it's likely the season will end up much higher in the ranks.
Most of the snowiest winters happened more than half a century ago, dumping between 57.8 and 63.2 inches, according to NWS data.
But the all-time snowiest spanned 1995 and 1996 and blanketed the city with more than six feet of snow.
That benchmark will be eclipsed if the city gets just one or two more major snowstorms just like it did in February 2010, the snowiest month on record.
Jill Colvin contributed reporting.
