Yes, this happened: Snow for 66 hours straight in this NY city

ALBANY -- Talk about groundhog's day!

Snow fell for 66 straight hours in the city of Syracuse, starting early Thursday and ending around noon Saturday, the National Weather Service said.

Lake effect snow off Lake Ontario coupled with frigid temperatures led to 19.3 inches to fall on the central New York city over the three days, according to weather service meteorologist Mike Murphy, who is based in Binghamton.

"It was a pretty good lake effect event," Murphy said. "It came to 5 to 7 inches were falling per day, moderately for the three days."

He added that, "Temperatures were very cold. A lot of blowing and drifting snow, too."

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The steady snow in Syracuse capped an unusually frigid weekend across New York, with record lows in parts of the state.

In Dutchess County, the Sunday morning temperature of minus 14 degrees broke the record for the day — set in 1970.

Late last week, temperatures with the wind chill nosedived to minus 24 in Binghamton and minus 18 in Rochester.

In Syracuse, the first week of January was the fourth-snowiest start to the new year, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported.

The city had 23.4 inches fall over that stretch, and it was the coldest start to the new year there since 1904, the paper said.

On Sunday, Syracuse tied a record low for the day at minus 11 set in 1996, according to the National Weather Service.

The good news: Temperatures across New York are expected to warm back up into the 40s later in the week.