I just updated the top 10 snowiest cities section and it hasn’t gotten any better for Syracuse or Erie. Worcester continues to hold a decent lead with their seasonal snowfall totals now at 108.9 inches. They added over another inch to their lead. Way to go Worcester I’m starting to see quite a few visitors lately from Mass visiting the site and a warm welcome to all of you. OK warm welcome doesn’t quite sound right does it.
It hit me as I was scraping the ice off my call this morning that today marks the first day of Spring. I’m not quite sure where it is Spring but it sure doesn’t seem like it in the North East does it? Keep in mind that the national snow contest lives on well past the first day of Spring for the fact that Mother Nature tends to get a little confused some years and drags the snow on into April. I believe a couple of times even into May.
Right now it’s looking pretty good for Worcester buttttt…. Keep in mind that most likely the Lake Effect Machines are most likely still running for Syracuse and Erie. That said in my opinion it will be tough to make up over a foot of snow in the next few weeks plus the way it’s going the chances are that if we do gain on Worcester they will just throw in another coastal to blow us away again. Good Luck and Have a Great Week
Looks like Erie is soundly in the #2 spot again. We’ve had several days of lake effect snow and although some parts of Erie County have received over 30″ (spotter reports), the official NWS reporting site is reporting right around 8″. Regardless, that’s enough to put us at 98.8″ for the season. As far as I can tell, Syracuse has missed most of the lake effect, although it seems that it is snowing there now. It will be interesting to see where we all end up at the end of today.
Missed by just this much once again Dave It’s about as close as it can get and we’ll see what the next update shows for the overnight snow. At least we closed the gap a little on Worcester!
How about Springfield, Ma? They exceed 100K population. You can have the Springield competition between Spfld., Illinois and Missouri!
Hey Mike, it comes down to what I posted to Nick. NOAA doesn’t have an office for them and we use their stats as the official snow stats. I’ve looked and looked and finally called the Tauntan, MA office and NOAA doesn’t have stats for Springfield, Lowell and I think Cambridge was the other city I was looking for. Sorry!