PHOTO/VIDEO The weather in the North-East of the USA has turned thousands of flights upside down. New York, with the heaviest snowfall in the last almost four years
Image from Brooklyn, New York City, Saturday, December 27, 2025. Credit: Deccio Serrano/NurPhoto / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia
More than 3,900 flights to, from and within the US were delayed, according to Saturday morning data from monitoring website FlightAware, amid snow in the Northeast. In New York there was the heaviest snowfall in the last almost four years, writes the BBC.
In New York's Central Park, the snow measured 11 centimeters, the highest level recorded since January 2022. In other areas of the American state, it reached about 19 centimeters, according to the US National Weather Service (NWS).
Central Park's Belvedere Castle after four inches of snow last night, New York City's heaviest snowfall in several years. āļø pic.twitter.com/WZ9a3lriXn
ā Manhattan Bird Alert (@BirdCentralPark) December 27, 2025
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul had declared a state of emergency for more than half of the state's counties.
New York City looks magical in the snow pic.twitter.com/DojNwYKnl2
ā Meredith Gorman (@MereGorman) December 27, 2025
At the national level, about 770 flights have been canceled since Saturday, the most affected being the John F. Kennedy airports in New York, respectively the LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports in New Jersey, notes Forbes.
Also in the US Northeast, Boston Logan International and Philadelphia International airports recorded 84 and 53 delays, respectively.
By Saturday morning, 15 to 25 inches of snow was reported from Syracuse in central New York to Long Island in southeastern New York.
SNOW DAY š½āļø: Friday night snowfall in New York City illuminated by the bright lights of Times Square set the stage for a scenic Big Apple winter wonderland. pic.twitter.com/05DRuQWYGK
ā FOX Weather (@foxweather) December 27, 2025
The heaviest snowfall was recorded in neighboring New Jersey, where a state of emergency was also declared, and Connecticut, where the snowpack was about 8 inches in Fairfield County.
Heavy snow fell throughout the Northeast on Friday as southern Connecticut through the Hudson Valley saw anywhere from two to six inches of snow.
ABC News' Morgan Norwood reports. https://t.co/DBMOuXrKqH pic.twitter.com/9MlQyV61RI
ā ABC News (@ABC) December 27, 2025
