Samstag, 17 03 07,
Das ganze nennt sich "light freezing rain" und es soll noch die ganze Nacht so weitergehen. Von wegen New York liegt auf der gleichen Höhe wie Neapel. Am Ende waren es in New York bis zu 8 cm von diesem granulatartigem Schnee.
Die New York Times schreibt:
New York Cleans Up After Heavy Storm

NEW YORK (AP) -- Cleanup crews were out early Saturday clearing snow and ice from Manhattan streets for the city's St. Patrick's Day parade, a day after a heavy storm buffeted the East Coast and caused the cancellation of more than 1,400 flights.

The sleet, snow and freezing rain that pelted the East Coast on Friday had tailed off Saturday as the weather system moved northward.
''We got the whole gamut there,'' Nelson Vaz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said early Saturday. He called it ''a pretty impressive late-winter storm.''
Eight inches of snow fell at Frostburg, Md., with 5 in New York City, and a record 2.13 inches of rain fell at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Up to 2 feet of snow fell in New York's northern Catskills.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said more than 1,400 flights were canceled Friday at the region's three major airports because of the storm. Delays also were reported at airports in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore-Washington and Boston. (...)
Winter officially ends at the vernal equinox Tuesday evening, but climatologists said it was not unusual for storms to arrive well into March.
''Usually you have the biggest storms in March,'' said meteorologist Kevin Lipton in Albany, N.Y.
On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that this winter was the warmest worldwide since record keeping began in 1880.