2022 in Pictures: when a snowstorm turned New York City into a Winter Wonderland

Winter Storm Kenan hit New York at the end of January and turned the iconic city into a veritable winter wonderland.

The nor'easter, as locals are referred to the storm, hit the city with intense winds and blinding blizzard conditions. Pictured: pedestrians crossing the road on 42nd Street on Eighth Avenue, in New York City on Saturday.

The storm hammered the city with snow on the 28th and 29th of January, with between 18-25 cm (7-10 inches) of snowfall in most parts of the Big Apple.

Snow plows had to work overtime to keep the white stuff at bay. Here we see a snow plow at work on 7th Avenue in Times Square on Saturday, January 29th.

However, some parts of New York saw up to 30 cm (1 foot) accumulate over the two days of heavy snowfall.

Pictured: New York Public Library

All that snow brought out the playful side of New Yorkers. Here we see hundreds of people enjoying a massive snowball fight in Washington Square Park on January 29, 2022, in New York City.

This young man from Senegal had no qualms about stripping down and braving the cold with his friends during the Washington Square Park snowball fight.

Brooklyn received plenty of snowfall, so naturally, families flocked to Prospect Park to do a little sledding.

Many also took advantage of the weather to do a bit of cross-country skiing in the Brooklyn park.

Unfortunately for those who still had to work, the weather was more inconvenient than anything else. Surely this food delivery person was not impressed with all the snow that hit New York City.

In fact, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in New York on the evening of January 28th for New York City, Long Island, Rockland, and Westchester Counties. The storm brought power outages to much of the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast.

The storm, which rocked the North Eastern area of the country and hit New York City particularly hard, caused major interruptions in travel over the weekend.

Per FlightAware, 4.831 flights were canceled throughout the US on January 29th, and the primary safety concern was the 40 mph winds.

On January 30th, after the majority of the snowfall had hammered the region, almost 2,000 flights were grounded, leaving many travelers frustrated.

On January 30th, the storm slowed considerably, and thus the clean-up had to begin.

Here we see workers plowing snow at Rockefeller Plaza in the wake of the blizzard.

While Winter Storm Kenan has not been the worst storm to ever hit New York City, it sure is a lot of work to clean up so much snow.