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Boston’s brutal winter

Boston winters: this season vs the previous nine. Two panels, daily snowfall and cumulative snowfall in inches, Dec 1 to Mar 1. This season stays near zero until late January, then four large storms carry it to about 99 inches — above all nine earlier seasons.

Those of us in Boston just wrapped up an almost historic winter1 and it was particularly painful. Likely because we were lulled into a false sense of security by the (comparable) lack of snow relative to the last few years. Until the end of January — then everything changed.

I wrote and posted a little Gist that shows how to generate the graph above.

Footnotes

  1. Second snowiest. Just 2 inches off the first place winter.