This winter — significantly the month of February — has felt like a actuality examine for New Englanders after some straightforward winter seasons over the previous couple of years.
To date since Dec. 1, Boston has seen practically thrice the quantity of snow in comparison with final winter. Boston has gotten 28.1 inches of snow to this point this season, in comparison with 9.7 inches final yr throughout the identical interval.
Nonetheless, Boston is coming in under regular. A standard season could be 33.8 inches at this level.
Whereas there’s been constant snowfall, there hasn’t been a climactic snowstorm emblematic of the season. A single occasion hasn’t produced greater than about 5.5 inches in Better Boston.
Our climate staff says as of now, it does not seem like there shall be an excessive amount of of an opportunity this season so as to add to the snow totals in Boston.
It has been a little bit of a distinct story for northern New England this yr, the place there’s been much more snow.
In Burlington, Vermont, for instance, there’s been 60.9 inches of snowfall to this point this season. That surpasses the norm of 59.1 inches for that metropolis, and virtually doubles final yr’s 34.9 inches of snow throughout the identical interval.
One factor is for certain although, it has been a notably chilly winter. Based on our meteorologists, this winter ranks as chilly as 2015 when evaluating the variety of days when the common temperature was 32 levels or under — 45 days.
