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Boston Reacts To Breaking Record Snowfall
Boston Reacts To Breaking Record Snowfall
Jan 17, 2024 3:31 PM

If you're going to deal with a ton of snow, it might as well be a record-breaking amount of snow, right?!

That is how many in Boston have felt since February, when copious amounts of snow fell during two winter storms within the span of a few weeks.

In fact, data from our shows just how snowy it was this season in Boston:

- Record 30-day snowfall: 94.4 inches from Jan. 24- Feb. 22, 2015, inclusive (previous record: 58.8 inches from Jan. 9 - Feb. 7, 1978). Incredibly, this 30-day total would be the third snowiest season!

- Record snowfall for meteorological winter (December, January and February): 99.4 inches (previous record: 81.5 inches in 1993-94; of the 107.6 inches in 1995-96, only 79.4 inches came in December, January and February)

- Record snow depth*: 37 inches on Feb. 9 (previous record: 31 inches on Jan. 11, 1996; * gaps in this dataset exist)

- Fastest six-foot snowfall: 72.5 inches in 18 days from Jan. 24 - Feb. 10, 2015 (previous record: 73 inches in 45 days from Dec. 29, 1993 to Feb. 11, 1994)

- Fastest 90-inch snowfall: 23 days from Jan. 24 - Feb. 15, 2015 (previous record: 78 days from Dec. 30, 1993 to Mar. 17, 1994)

- Four calendar days with at least 12 inches of snow, a first for any snow season (previously, only two seasons had as many as two such days, in 1977-1978 and 1960-1961 seasons)

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And as of 7 pm EDT on March 15, another 2.9 inches of snow fell at Boston's Logan Airport, enough for the National Weather Service in Boston to announce that Boston Logan Airport received a grand total of . In the last 21 years, Boston has now had 4 of its top 5 snowiest seasons. (These counts cover the period from July 1 through June 30, to include snow in the fall and spring months.)

MORE ON WEATHER.COM: Boston's Snowiest Season in Pictures

Heavy snow and low visibilities during a drive on I-95 just north of Boston on Sunday, March 15, 2015. (Photo: Keith Carson)

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