<P> The January 2016 United States blizzard was a crippling and historic blizzard that produced up to 3 ft ( 91 cm ) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States from January 22 to January 24 , 2016 . Evolving from a shortwave trough that formed in the Pacific Northwest on January 19 , the system consolidated into a defined low - pressure area on January 21 over Texas . Regarding it as a `` potentially historic blizzard '' , meteorologists indicated the storm could produce more than 2 ft ( 61 cm ) of snow across a wide swath of the Mid-Atlantic region and could `` paralyze the eastern third of the nation '' . Winter weather expert Paul Kocin described the blizzard as `` kind of a top - 10 snowstorm '' . </P>
<P> The January 2016 United States blizzard was a crippling and historic blizzard that produced up to 3 ft ( 91 cm ) of snow in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States from January 22 to January 24 , 2016 . Evolving from a shortwave trough that formed in the Pacific Northwest on January 19 , the system consolidated into a defined low - pressure area on January 21 over Texas . Regarding it as a `` potentially historic blizzard '' , meteorologists indicated the storm could produce more than 2 ft ( 61 cm ) of snow across a wide swath of the Mid-Atlantic region and could `` paralyze the eastern third of the nation '' . Winter weather expert Paul Kocin described the blizzard as `` kind of a top - 10 snowstorm '' . </P>
when did it snow in new york 2016
when did it snow in new york 2016
January 22 to January 24 , 2016
January 22 to January 24 , 2016