Not to get too off track but here's a link to the surprise snow of 3/22/98
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/23/nyregion/on-a-spring-day-winter-shows-up-with-snow.html
After just one day on the job, spring took a break yesterday and surprised New Yorkers who awoke to a storm that dropped five inches of snow -- the most in the city in more than two years.
Only one to three inches had been predicted for New York City yesterday, and many people said they had not heard the forecast.