Why New York gets more snow than the south pole

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When I first visited New York I was lucky enough to see the city in the snow. Except that wasn't that lucky. Apparently NYC gets more snow than the south pole! I found this statistic difficult to believe so decided to put my PhD research and data analysis skills to use, and found some surprising facts about snowfall in Antarctica...

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(1) Data: https://www.dwd.de/DWD/klima/beratung/ak/ak_890090_kt.pdf
(2) I downloaded ERA-Interim data from ECMWF, 6-hourly resolution
(3) Calculated using 2m temperature, ERA-Interim, 1979-2018
(4) Note that for simplicity the planet is shown at equinox, which if you like is the time averaged position of the Earth over an annual cycle. I don't particularly like this figure, for the record.
(5) Calculated using density and specific heat capacity data from https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/
(6) Created using http://earth.nullschool.net and planet_snaps code
(7) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts_by_area
(8) Yes, I realise that technically at this point the water is the Hudson river, but you take my point.

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