![]() It would be the third snowiest winter overall, just those 30 days. Boston got 94.4 inches of snow in the thirty days between January 24th and February 22nd, 2015. Notice that nearly 2 feet of snow stand between #2 and #5 on this list, while 1 inch stands between #2 and #5 in snowiest months. I think that Barnstable clocks 25" or so per winter. Boston does about 43.6" of snow per winter. April had about 24" by April 1st of 1997, but couldn't generate enough powda to be a true player. March had a 19.8 inch head-start in 1960 and failed to get near the top 5. April, which has had some heavy blizzard-type snowfalls, just doesn't get enough follow-up events to break into that very close (one inch of snow stands between the second worst month of snow ever and the fifth worst) pile of months that make up rankings-2-5. I suppose that Spring is asserting herself by March, and that the ground is too warm in December. It's odd that December or March didn't force their way in the mix up there in that list. Top Snowfall Totals For A Month in Boston, and remember that you lose about 10% of the calendar with February: We just fail to mention it, because History of any sort is full of these little nuances. People looking at Top Boston Snowstorms charts in the future will be like, "Damn, it must have sucked in 2015 to get 24.6 inches of snow on January 28th and then get 23.8 inches on February 7th," and they could quite possibly be completely unaware that there was also a Groundhog Day blizzard in 2015 that did like 18". ![]() Three of Boston's five snowiest months (including #1 overall, with a bullet) were, as you'll see, various forms of February. Some of our worst storms, like the Blizzard of '78, came in the shortest month of he year. I'm leaning heavily on a Weather Channel page. Your town may be different, but it's good enough to work with. There will be a bit of a Boston focus, as I have a lot of Boston weather data handy. With that in mind, let's sort through some weather facts and speculation that may get you some proper mojo for those times when you ponder the weather at great lengths. February is smack dab in the middle of that. A little bit of November, all of December, January, February and March, plus a bit of April. I may not be correct officially or technically, but it's a good working model. We're at roughly what I consider to be mid-winter. It may or may not change in the coming weeks, but that's not what we're here to discuss today. I think that even the wimpiest of us would agree that we have had a relatively mild winter so far. the article is a year old, but no new records have been established, nor have averages been altered much.) (Editor: We're dipping into our archives to drop some February and Winter-type Knowledge into your dome-pieces.
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