At a Glance

Erie broke its all-time snowiest season record on Wednesday.The previous record was set 17 years ago in 2000-01.The city still has 30 percent of its average snowfall yet to happen through spring.

The record for thesnowiest season has been broken in Erie, Pennsylvania, and it's only early February.

This new record has been set because of, which brought snow to the city on Wednesday.

(FORECAST: )

As of 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, the season'ssnowfall total was 152.1 inches at Erie International Airport, more than 12 feet of snow. This breaks the previous snowiest season of2000-01 which had 149.1 inches. Snowfall records date back to the 1931-32 winter season, according to the National Weather Service.

This winter is the snowiest on record for Erie, Pennsylvania.

This is quite remarkableconsidering it is only early February.

The average snowfall-to-date through Feb. 5 for Erie is 69.6 inches, which is less than half the amount that has fallen.

An average season sees 100.9 inches of snow pile up, indicating that about 30 inches of additional snow are generally expected for the remainder of the season. Any additional snowfall this season would just add to the already impressive season.

(MORE: )

This winter season was given a jumpstart when an incredible 65.1 inches of snow accumulated from Christmas Eve through the morning of Dec. 27, courtesy of a stationary lake-effect snow band. For more information on this astounding lake-effect event, see below.

For the snow-fatigued in the area, the good news is that as of Feb. 4, according to NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. When ice forms on the Great Lakes, the ability for lake-effect snow to be produced is greatly decreased.

Christmas Week Historic Lake Effect Snow Recap

From Christmas Eve through the morning of Dec. 27, Erie'ssnow total was an astounding 65.1 inches.A stationary lake-effect snow band off Lake Erie dumped34 inches of snow at Erie International Airporton Christmas Day alone, with an additional 26.5 incheson Dec. 26.

(MORE: )

This prolific event shattered several Erie snowfall records that dateto 1893, as well as a Pennsylvania state record, according to the .

All-time record for two-day snowfall in the state of Pennsylvania: 60.5 inches (Dec. 25-26); previous record was 44 inches in Morgantown on March 20-21, 1958

All-time record for snow in any single day in Erie: 34 inches (Dec. 25); the previous record was 20 inches on Nov. 22, 1956 24-hour snowfall record for Dec. 25 in Erie: 34 inches; theprevious record was 8.1 inches in 2002 24-hour snowfall record for Dec. 26 in Erie: 26.5 inches; theprevious record was 8.2 inches in

Erie's records for two-day, three-day, seven-day and 13-day snowfall were also broken during this lake-effect event.

Two-day snowfall: 26.7 inches (Nov. 24-25, 1950; the "Great Appalachian Storm") : 30.2 inches (Dec. 29-31, 2002) Seven-day snowfall: 39.8 inches (Dec. 27, 2001-Jan. 2, 2002) 13-day snowfall: 52.8 inches (Dec. 31, 1998-Jan. 12, 1999)

That's not a misprint. Erie picked up more snow in less than 36hours in this event than itsprevious13-daysnowstorm record.

Needless to say, the 121.3inches of snow in Decemberwasthe city's snowiest single month on record, clobbering the in December 1989 by over 4 feet.

That'salso more snow in one month than Erie averages in an entire winter season – 100.9inches.

What's more, this was also the snowiest month , according to the Pennsylvania state climatologist. The previous record was 113 inches in February 2010 at Laurel Summit in Somerset County.

(MORE: )

This wasn't just a record-breaking event in Erie.

In central New York's Tug Hill Plateau, a 48-hour snowfall record for Oswego County may have been broken, with 62.2 inches of snow near the town of Redfield.

Finally, Muskegon, Michigan, picked up 14.7 inches of snow on Dec. 29alone,, according to the National Weather Service.