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A puffy winter violent storm will hit the East Coast on Thursday ( Dec. 17 ) and drop more snow than much of New England saw all last year .
" This is going to be a significant snowstorm — the biggest blizzard that we ’ve had in the Northeast for a couple of years , " meteorologist Ari Sarsalari say Dec. 16 onThe Weather Channel . The violent storm is currently pelt freeze down rainfall in portion of North Carolina and Virginia , andsnowhas begun to fall in the Ohio Valley , Appalachians and mid - Atlantic , according to current conditions reports .
The tempest is expected to intensify as it go up the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday ( Dec. 16 ) night ; overall , it could drop more than 1 foot of snow ( 0.3 meters ) over westerly Maryland and southern New England .
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Last winter , New York City saw its secondly - smallest blow total on phonograph record , The New York Times report ; Central Park only get 4.8 inches ( 12.2 centimeters ) of snow in the months of December , January and February , combined . By comparability , during the second - snowiest wintertime of the past decade , more than 5 ft ( 1.6 m ) of snow fall in Central Park ; that was between December 2010 and February 2011 .
These drastic variations in weather can be chalked up toclimate change , Mark Wysocki , the New York State climatologist , told The Times .
" In the 2000s , we ’re seeing these extremes , between the driest and the wettest . Because of the climate commute , this is what we would expect , this volatility , " Wysocki said .
Originally publish on Live Science .
