According to the National Weather Service, the third major snowstorm of the month, that pummeled New York City for two days, broke a monthly record for snowfall in Central Park that stood for 114 years.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said, "The New York City area's three major airports remain open, but more than 1,000 flights were canceled Friday for the second day in a row".

The storm killed at least three people, knocked out power to more than 700,000 electrical customers across the U. S. Northeast and grounded at least 3,844 flights from regional airports. Forecasters are already predicting another storm that may hit the U. S. East Coast next week, even as the city is still finding hard to find its feet.

Jeffrey Tongue, a weather service meteorologist in Upton, New York, said, "This is stuff that doesn't happen too often, maybe a couple of times a century".

The weather service said that Manhattan's Central Park, as of yesterday, received 36.9 inches (93.7 centimeters), the most ever for a single month. The previous record for February was 27.9 inches in 1934, and the mark for a single month was 30.5 inches in March 1896.