JANUARY 25– FLAKE-BY-FLAKE SNOW REPORT: THE BIG WHITE CONTINUES AT 5 INCHES AN HOUR APPROXIMATE PACE
WPCNR WEATHER. jANUARY 25, 2026 4 P.M. UPDATED 10:40 P.M.
At the 10:40 PM hour, a fine rain is now falling, accumulation has essentially topped out in what has been one of most intense snowstorms afflicting White Plains in years.
More shoveling awaits us tomorrow morning. White Plains Schools are closed Monday.
After a second clearing of snow, it is clear the pace of the largest snowstorm to hit White Plains in two winters, by my recollection, that the powdery consistency of the white event aided by its organization and intensity of flake ordinance is continuing to replace snow already plowed, shoveled or snowblown away at the same speed as it is removed.
It took your shoveling reporter, John Bailey, another hour and 15 minutes to clear sidewalk and 90 foot driveway refilled with the windblown white .
My surprise was after completing shoveling in an hour 15 minutes, 1 hour later the drive was refilled again.
The rough total after two snow removals was 12 inches, and seeing another 2 inches have happily refilled the driveway. We are going to be close to 16 inches or more.
The growing problem, the DPW faces is the powdery drifting llightness of the snow. It does not pile or collect well. Walks residue has now piled to about 3 feet. And it has a tendence to collapse or create mini-avalanches.
If this stops by midnight the shovel jobs tomorrow will be another chore.
JANUARY 25– 4 P.M EST PLOWING PROGRESS STILL SNOWING AT 5 INCHES AN HOUR
WPCNR THE LETTER TICKER
The town of Greenburgh has 131 miles of roads that we must plow. Crews have been working since 7 AM today and won’t stop until all the roads in town are passable and in good shape. We have 35 town snow vehicles/trucks on our roads. It could take about three hours for each of the trucks to complete their route before they come back and start over again.
If snow is coming down fast enough a road can look like it never was plowed minutes after the plow goes through. Plowing isn’t a one and done thing—it’s a constant loop. Snow falls, plows clear it, snow immediately covers the road again. When snowfall rates are high accumulation outpaces plowing. Add wind, drifting, and it looks untouched.
The reality is that crews are working nonstop. Plows don’t stop the snow. They only remove what already is fallen.
PAUL FEINER
Greenburgh Town Supervisor
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JANUARY 25– SNOW FLAKE-BY-FLAKE: THE BIG WHITE CONTINUES AT 5 INCHES AN HOUR AT 12:30 PM EST 1 P.M.:TEMP 18 DEGREES WIND 13 MPH GUSTING TO 26. DRIFTING ESCALATES
WPCNR FLAKE-BY-FLAKE FLASH By John F. Bailey. January 25, 2026:
The Sunday snow started at 7 A.M. this morning and by 10:15 A.M had accumulated approximately 5 inches.
The is a skier’s dream: fluffy white power which when you swerve to a stop makes all the lady skiers take notice.
It took this official shoveler and snow blower pilot 1 hour and 20 minutes to clear my driveway of 5 inches of snow.
However, the snow is continuing it’s 5 inches an hour accumulation rate. One hour later the 5 inches of slow I cleared from my 90 foot driveway had been replaced.
At this rate the snow as beautiful as it is continues the pace of its original forecast by The Weather Channel of 16 inches.
I reckon it will take two more clearings with the snow blower to get the driveway clear.
I await the battery recharging which should be just about done.
It is a relentless 45 degree angle of fall continuing at this hour.
The temperature is 16 WPCNR SNOWY DEGREES, and the surface under the fallen snow is a wet slippery causing uncertain footing with steering the snowblower.
I warn you after an hour out in this Arctic cold, your fingers become numb in your gloves and your toes become numb even in your L.L. Bean snow boots.
I cross my fingers that this snow will not last until Monday evening.
I also suggest you clear it in three stages.
John Bailey reporting from my driveway in a Very White White Plains New York USA, where at 1 P.M. i have to advise you the wind has picked up, it is now 18 degrees with the wind at 13 miles hour gusting to 26 miles an hour enhancing the drifting effect and escalating the difficulty in clearing the “Great White” in an orderly manner that will last.
In fact this drivewat as of 11:15 was cleared to the blackgtop, now at 1:15 PM it is completed been replaced with new snow.