At a Glance

Some locations have had record amounts of snow for the season-to-date.Others have seen an exceptionally snowy period since after Thanksgiving.

Barely into 2017, a number of cities have already topped some notable snowfall records this snow "season" with much of winter and early spring's snow still to come.

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Bismarck, North Dakota, has picked up 53.1 inches, or nearly 4 and a half feet, of snow this season, as of Wednesday.That topped the previous record high for season-to-date snow through Jan. 4 of 51.2 inches set in the 1996-97 season.

Vehicles are piled high with snow in Mandan, North Dakota, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016.

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This is more than 31 inches above averageand has already exceeded the entire average season's worth of snow (50.1 inches).

Virtually all this snow in North Dakota's capital city has fallen during a roughly five-week stretch since the end of Thanksgiving weekend.

In that time, the National Weather Service office in Bismarck for four separate heavy snow events.

By the Monday after New Year's Day, the 21-inch snow depth at the airport , and was the city's greatest snow depth in almost seven years.

On average, Bismarck picks up about 57 percent of its average seasonal snow after Jan. 4 –about 28.3 inches. If that happens, it will place 2016-17 among the 10 snowiest seasons all-time.

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During that same period of time, Pocatello, Idaho, was also hammered by multiple snowstorms.

The southeastern Idaho city picked up just under 41 inches of snow from Nov. 28 through Jan. 4, , and also, like Bismarck, .

Even the state's typically less snowy capital city set a notable all-time snow record.

The official snow depth of 14 inches Wednesday at Boise Airport from December 1985 and December 1983.

While not record paces, several other cities in the Great Basin and northern Rockies have gotten off to impressively snowy starts to the season.

This reflects the persistent storm track since late November from the Northwest and northern Rockies into the northern Plains.

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Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7.

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