Joe Halpern
Research Director- Boston Business Journal
If we are to believe the weather prognosticators, Friday’s snow storm is going to be one of the worst on record, with as much as 2 feet of snow expected to accumulate in Greater Boston by Saturday.
To help put the pending Blizzard of ’13 in perspective, the Boston Business Journal’s research team has come up with the following by-the-numbers report:
- 3.2: Number of inches of that fell on Boston at the end of Dec. 29, 2012, up until now the biggest snowstorm so far this winter. It was the first significant snow storm to hit the region since February 2011.
- 4.4: Number of inches of snow accumulation during the biggest snowstorm of 2011.
- 9: The snow-inch total in Boston in 1936-37, the least amount ever recorded for a winter.
- 10.9: Number of inches of snow that Boston normally gets in February.
- 14.6: The number of inches of snow that fell on Jan. 12th, 2011, the last time Boston got more than a foot of snow in one storm.
- 18.2: The snowfall totals for the following storms: Dec. 26-27, 2010; Dec. 20-22, 1975; and Jan. 7-8, 1996.
- 21: The number of inches of snow that fell on Boston on Jan. 20, 1978, the largest one-day total ever recorded.
- 22.4: Average number of days of snowfall in Boston.
- 27.1: Amount of inches of snow that fell on Boston between Feb. 6 and Feb. 7, 1978, during the “Blizzard of ‘78.”
- 27.5: Number of inches that fell on Boston between Feb. 17 and Feb. 18, 2003, the city’s largest single storm total on record. CLICK HERE for a list of Boston’s 10 snowiest storms.
- 43.8: Number of inches that Boston gets in an average winter.
- 107.6: The number of inches of snow that fell in Boston during the winter of 1995-96, the greatest seasonal snowfall total on record.
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