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Millions of New Yorkers poured into the streets and the parks this weekend to enjoy the first real break in one of the longest, coldest winters in many years. The wind chill was back down in the low 40s last night, but still!

Details.

Via USA Today: More snow fell on Boston on Sunday, enough to make this the snowiest season ever on record there. The National Weather Service said 2.9 inches fell by 7 p.m., pushing total snowfall for the winter of 2014-2015 to 108.6 inches. That is a full inch over the previous record set during the winter of 1995-1996, the service’s …

Taken yesterday afternoon just before everything turned to garbage-strewn piles of black muck.

LaGuardia airport is closed at this writing after a Delta flight out of Atlanta crash-landed on the runway, skidding into a snowbank and a perimeter fence. The McDonnell Douglas MD-88 aircraft skidded during a Thursday morning snowstorm. LaGuardia Airport was closed immediately after the incident occurred. The FAA said the airport is expected to reopen at 6:59 p.m. EST. Port …

The weather has been particularly hard on restaurants and nightspots, but has been a boon for all delivery services.

Winter 2015 in one GIF, everyone. RT @JJDodders: THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE BEST GIF. pic.twitter.com/LHXGhwybuR — The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) February 18, 2015

Last year’s Staten Island Chuck (actually a female named Charlotte) died several days after De Blasio dropped her on Groundhog Day. This year Chuck was kept behind plexiglass.

This includes subways, buses, ferries, PATH, Metro-North, Long Island Railroad, and (perhaps obviously) AirTrain. New Jersey Transit will suspend all rail service until Thursday at 8PM tonight. No re-start time for the MTA has yet been announced. Wherever you are at 11PM, you’ll likely be there for 36-48 hours. UPDATE: Gov. Cuomo has also declared a ban on all non-emergency …

Via CNN: While the worst of the weather isn’t expected to hit until late Monday into Tuesday, according to CNN forecasters, more than 2,100 flights already have been canceled for Monday and more than 1,900 for Tuesday, Flightaware.com reported. The major U.S. airlines are offering fee-free rebooking of flights to and from the Northeast on Monday and Tuesday. United Airlines …

Last night I tweeted out a photo from my grocery store and they used it.

A time lapse of Buffalo weather. (Tipped by JMG reader Blair)

CNN reports: Every state in the Union had a reporting station somewhere within its borders registering temperatures below freezing Tuesday morning. That included Hawaii, where the temperature at Mauna Kea on the Big Island dropped to 31 degrees. In Florida, it was in the upper 20s in the Panhandle and freeze warnings were in effect. Tuesday was the coldest November …

The Weather Channel gets a lot of flack for naming winter storms, but this year’s set does have some pretty cool names. GORGON! The missing “W” storm name will be voted on by viewers.

Via the Boston Globe: The Fourth of July will come on the Third this year in Boston. The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks extravaganza on the Esplanade in Boston will be held Thursday instead of Friday because of the bad weather expected from Tropical Storm Arthur, officials said this afternoon. “It’s not optimal. We wish it were, but we’ve …

Tropical Storm Arthur is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow. At the present it’s not forecast to make a direct hit on New York City, but the Fourth is likely be quite stormy and the annual Pines Invasion on Fire Island could see a lot of soggy wigs. Macy’s says that the fireworks show over the East River will …

Twin tornadoes hit rural Nebraska.

The clip’s maker is arguing with YouTube’s commenters about how he should have reacted. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)