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That was only the average for the past couple years I think, or maybe just last year they where comparing it to. I just looked up the stat for the total average of winters in NYC, and it's 28". So far it's 57" and counting. If it keeps snowing like it's been, with another couple months left of it being cold enough to snow, it might end up being the worst winter on record. The highest was 76" in 1996. I remember that year, it was insane. I was a kid and we'd have so much fun playing on the huge mounds the plows made. So, we could very well get way more than that this year.