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Five Towns Slammed with 10 Inches of Snow
Temperatures will remain icy through Thursday.
Five Towns woke up to a winter wonderland on Wednesday, with parts of the area seeing up to 12 inches of snow.
Snowfall totals across Nassau County reached highest numbers in Massapequa, with 12.1 inches as of 7:06 a.m. Wednesday.
The nearest measurements taken included Malverne with 10.1 inches and Lido Beach wth 10.5 inches. Merrick counted 11.1 inches while Baldwin totaled 8.5.
To check out the latest snowfall totals, click here.
Frigid temps will continue through Thursday, according to Tim Morrin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office at Upton.
On Wednesday morning, temperatures hovered around seven degrees, with a wind chill index of minus 14. Highs on Wednesday are expected to reach 15 degrees and Wednesday night, expecting a low of one degree above zero with wind chill values as low as minus 11.
Thursday will dawn partly sunny with a two-out-of-ten chance of a snow shower in the afternoon, Morrin said. The high on Tuesday will only reach 20 degrees, with wind chills as low as minus 11.
Frosty temperatures will blanket all of Long Island and New York City equally, according to the NWS. "It's an equal opportunity air mass," Morrin said.
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Written by Lisa Finn
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