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My back yard is fairly open, as well as the driveway, but there are a lot of trees. My sister on the Northeast side of N Prov, says she measured around 30 inches. I was just in a bad spot, I guess.

Then how did I get only around 24 inches, also in North Providence? Wow, those bands can have such sharp cutoffs.

I heard you might have snowfall data for Providence from Feb of 1996 to Jan of 2021? It bothers me to my core that the LCD's stopped including snow measurements during this time. (Although not all months). I was on this site about Providence snowfall, and I was wondering where they got the totals from 1996 to 2001. They do highlight those years as not official. https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/providence/snowiest-winter-season

Thanks. It seemed so odd to me. I'm dying to drive to downtown Providence to take photos, but I have to work and I can't get out of my driveway yet. I'd also love to go to Newport to take pics before warming starts, but that won't happen.

I heard they are saying that the temp's were marginal so none of the snow that fell after 1pm accumulated at all.

I feel left out. I'm on the southwest end of North Providence, and I measured 24 inches. I'm only 8 miles north of the airport as the crow flies, and only 3.5 miles west of downtown Providence. How did I get so much less? I had to wait until noon for my first measurement, so it probably compacted a bit. And it's funny. The last 2 inches I had on a cleared spot, did not actually increase the total depth of the whole amount. So I'm really guessing I had somewhere between 22 and 28 depending. But still, why so much less?

Oh, thanks. I know of him!!

I don't have near what PVD has either, and I'm in North Providence. I'm more around 22-24 (If you account for Packing). I think the snow does drop off as you go north, and Cumberland is one of the furthest north towns in RI.

Who is Will and can I get the data from him?

Yeah, I'd say 78 was the biggest for North of Providence in RI, while this one was the biggest for south of Providence.

Great post. I'm in North Providence, RI, for the past 5 years. I found myself doing the same thing. "I don't care what amount I get as long as it's the MOST that fell anywhere". We just hate being lower than others, but love to be higher than others!! Ha ha! I had to learn long ago that it's the luck of the draw, and that you win some and lose some. But very hard to be the one hitting the jackpot. Not just in place, but in time. I have always wished I could time travel to March of 1888 and be in Saratoga Springs, NY for that storm. And not just amounts, but snow in odd places. San Francisco getting 4 inches in the 1880's. Houston, TX getting 20 inches in 1895. Stuff like that. And you are correct. We get a large variety of weather here in New England and I would be sad to move away and miss it all.

Thanks. Depressing, but thanks. Weird they wouldn't just put that data into the Local Climatological Data.

How do you access this? It's not in the "Now" data on the NWS site.

I've been angry that Providence stopped measuring snow in Feb of 1996 (Of course, the snowiest winter ever), and did it hit or miss till 2001, when it was picked up again. Is that what you mean by "Cleaned up the record with Will's info"? I was on a weather website talking about snow, and they mentioned that Providence had 105 inches in 95-96. I could not figure out where they got that info. They do asterisk saying it's not the official total. Or are you talking about other snow info about Providence?

I haven't posted on here in a long while. I'm in North Providence, on the southwest side. I went out at 10:30 to measure, and the spots that seemed the most level was 17 inches. Way less than people south and east of me reporting 24 inches. Downtown Providence is only 3.5 miles east of me. Granted, I'm just measuring the total now. If I had done it every 6 hours on a snow board, I'll bet it would be 20 inches or so. But no idea, really.

39 here in North Providence, RI. Dew Point is 38.8. This whole winter has sucked for Rhode Island. We've missed just about everything. I'm not holding out much hope for this one. I can see us at 34 and rain the whole time, maybe with snow mixed in. I knew RI was warmer, but I never dreamed it could be this different from Worcester on North.

Thought I'd chime in from Rhode Island. I'm in Pawtucket, but my weather station is over in North Providence, about 2 miles and 50 feet higher in elevation. It is 32.4 there right now. About 1.0 of snow, maybe. It was very wet and just above freezing for most of the early part, so even though it was snowing fairly well, it really didn't stick. It's moderately snowing right now. (I live in an old mill building in Pawtucket, no where to put my weather station. So I keep it at my sister's house in North Providence). It does everything but measure snow).

7.93 inches as of now in North Providence for the 2 days. Most rain I have ever personally measured in this amount of time.

I’ve had 5.23 inches as of 11:40 pm. North Providence. So weird to see the airport at quite a bit less. It’s not that far south.

9.5 inches here in North Providence, RI. What a great day yesterday. Snow from morning till night.

Actually, I think you are correct. Dec 92 does sound right. I'll have to look it up. I lived in Russell from Feb 86 until June 1996. (With the winter of 93-94 away in Arizona. Of course!, but at least I was there for 95-96)

I know what you mean! I like the first order station to show the high totals, for the record books. (Although I hate it when they get way more, even though the forecast was I would get the same. Dec 2020 when I was living in Nutley, NJ. Newark Airport and Central Park both had around 11 inches of snow. Just 8 miles away in Nutley, I had 6. So Weird).

This is what happened to me back in the late 80's. I was living in Russell, MA on top of a high hill, about 810 feet up. Big storm in Dec. All day it was beautiful, large flakes, got to about 14 inches, and then it changed to a mix of snow/sleet/slop all night. Next morning had about 16 inches of pocked marked snow, and all of it was melted off the trees. But just 10 or so miles away and another 500 to 800 feet up, Otis had 36 inches. I'm still smarting from that one, all these years later. Can't remember the year....1988 I think?

I had 143.5 in Russell, MA at about 810 feet in elevation.

I did a double take when I saw the Palm Trees here in Rhode Island. Very close to me, but I think it's the town of Lincoln. It looked so odd!!