NEW YORK (AP) – A big storm dumped a near-record 2 feet of snow on the city on Sunday but was it a blizzard? According to the National Weather Service, probably not.

In order to meet the definition of a blizzard, snow must be heavy enough that visibility is reduced to a quarter mile or less for three straight hours, and there must be winds of 35 mph or greater during those three hours.

“Probably we did not achieve that definition in terms of the wind,” said meteorologist Jeff Tongue of the National Weather Service. “We had blizzard conditions at times.”

However, it was a nor’easter, a storm that forms along the south Atlantic coast and moves northeast.

The weather service said 24.8 inches of snow fell in Central Park by 1 p.m., the second-highest total since officials started keeping records in 1869.

The record was 26.4 inches in December 1947.