article_snippet: It comes as cold weather records continue to fall across the country, with February declared the coldest month in New York for 81 years.
article_snippet: The average temperature in the New York City over the last four weeks has been 24°F - 11 degrees below normal.
article_snippet: New York joins other metropolitan areas such as Chicago and Pittsburgh, which have also experienced their most frigid February in decades.
article_snippet: Many already knew in their bones it was true - but official figures have now confirmed that for some parts of the country, February was the coldest month in history.
article_snippet: In Buffalo the February average was 10.9°F, beating the 1934 record of 11.4°F.
article_snippet: Syracuse was colder still, with an average of just 9°F.
article_snippet: According to The New York Times, The New York Times has not been this frigid in New York since February 1934.
article_snippet: That month it averaged 19.9°F.
article_snippet: On February 9 of that year, the mercury sank 15 degrees below zero - the lowest daily reading in New York's history.
article_snippet: Record-breaking: Ice chunks form underneath the snow-covered Brooklyn Bridge in New York City at the end of the coldest February in more than 80 years - and two more snow storms are expected to hit the region over the next few days .
article_snippet: Frozen: the mercury has not fallen this low in New York City since 1934.