PESCA: If New York City snow is normally the Ring Cycle, this stuff was Cats. Gidompsky talks about the liquid equivalent of a snow storm. Normally, two feet of snow would mean two-and-a-half inches of liquid, but for this storm...</s>Mr. GIDOMPSKY: For the amount that fell, two feet of snow melted down to closer to one-and-a-half inches of liquid.</s>PESCA: And one-and-a-half inches of liquid is what the city would normally get from only a little over a foot of snow, so if you're searching for real records in the snow, Turin might be a better place to look than New York.</s>PESCA: Mike Pesca, NPR News, New York.
The record-breaking East Coast storm that hammered cities from Washington, D.C., to Boston over the weekend was a record in name only.