Boston gets most winter snow in its
recorded history - 108.6 inches
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[March 16, 2015]
By Elizabeth Barber
BOSTON (Reuters) - After hosting parades
through snowy streets and weathering storms that snarled traffic and
commerce over the last few months, Boston residents have seen the
snowiest winter in the city's recorded history, the National Weather
Service said.
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Boston got 108.6 inches (275.8 cm) of snow over the winter,
surpassing the city's previous 1995-1996 record of 107.6 inches. The
new record was officially set at about 7 p.m. on Sunday, after a
storm dropped 2.9 inches on the capital and largest city in
Massachusetts.
"Boston, you survived the snowiest winter on record!!!," the
National Weather Service in Taunton wrote in a message on Facebook.
The record-setting inches, the most snowfall of any season since
1872, the first year on record, came after a day of rain began
melting snow piles around the city and hinted at the onset of
spring.
"Superbowls, World Series', Stanley Cups, and snowfall records. We
are truly a title city," said Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, on Twitter.
"There will be no parade," he deadpanned.
Boston earlier on Sunday held its annual St. Patrick's Parade in
slushy streets and last month celebrated the New England Patriots'
win at the NFL's Super Bowl with a parade through roads lined with
snow piles.
"I don't feel a sense of accomplishment," said 34-year-old Tyler
Comings, an economist, as he walked on newly snowy sidewalks in
Cambridge. "I think other people take more delight in it than do
people in Boston."
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Caitlin Isbister, a 33-year-old acupuncturist, was more gratified to
see some kind of reward for a winter that at times brought the
entire city to a halt, forcing the closure of schools and offices,
shutting down public transportation, and hurting businesses.
"At least we got something to show for it," she said.
(Editing by Eric M. Johnson, Robert Birsel)
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