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Let's hope this upcoming winter isn't like the pukefest that was '97/'98. Had my first big bust to this then 9 year old snow lover (December 27-28th.) The snowbomb that winter was good though.

Nothing on the Vineyard except 1.84" of rain and winds.

The winter of '95/'96 was really something down here on the Cape (I was living out on ACK Island with my mother at the time, hey I was 7 years old.) One of my favorites from that winter: March 2nd. BOS: 3.9" ORH: 6" HYA: 8" Lowell: 6"(?) Haverhill: 5.5" Ashfield: 7" Edgartown: 6" Plymouth: 8" There was a WINDEX event the following day.

In Oxford,MA. There's a neighborhood called Buffumville near Buffumville Lake. Here are the totals from one of my favorite snowstorms: 3/19/2004 ACK: 7" Edgartown: 4" HYA: 3.6" CQX: 3" Wareham: 1.8" Plymouth: T EWB: 1" BOS: T Off the Cape, it was pretty much a non-event.

26th Anniversary of the Vets Day snowstorm. BOS: 9" ORH: 10.2" Buffumville: 8" Southbridge: 6" HYA: 1.5" Hatchville: 4" E.Wareham: 10" EWB: 6" PYM: 12" Hingham: 11.7" Blue Hill: 11.4" Lowell: 6.3" Ashburnham: 15.4" Tully Lake: 5" Haverhill: 5" Newburyport: 8" Amherst: 7" Westfield: 11" Cummington: 9" Ashfield: 11.6" Colrain: 8.5" Heath: 11.8" North Adams: 10" Great Barrington: 8" Gusts: BOS: 40 MPH ACK: 58 MPH MVY: 29 MPH* HYA: 54 MPH FMH: 46 MPH EWB: 31 MPH ORH: No gusts. * Incomplete data. Overall this was an interesting storm.

Look at December 1979 for the rest of MA. That was pretty much it. Here's the Norlun from February, 1990:

I remember watching that back in from the ocean. Was really cool to watch.

Here's a forgotten/obscure snowstorm: December 13/14, 1979 A Thursday/Friday event: BOS: 1.5" ORH: 1.9" HYA: T Lowell: 0.8" Haverhill: 2" EWB: T Hingham: 1" Chatham: 0 Ipswich: 2.6" Newburyport: 1.5" Ashburnham: 1.9" Amherst: 3" Westfield: 1.5" Ashfield: 3.2" Great Barrington: 2"

I remember a storm from February, 1993. It was on the 2nd I believe. Some selected totals from SEMASS: Edgartown: 3.8" Hatchville: 5" Hyannis: 3.1" Chatham: 11.5" Nantucket: 6"* Wareham: 7" Plymouth: 9" New Bedford: 4.5" Taunton: Missing. Peak gusts: ACK: 60* MVY: 44 HYA: 46 FMH: 58 EWB: 32 BOS: 41 ORH: NO GUSTS *Reported in the Inquirer and Mirror I remember this storm very, very distinctly because I was at daycare and the staff were commenting that it was going to snow heavily. The director's husband worked for the Steamship Authority and she said that they would not be running the boats. My mother picked me up during the height of the storm and it was a harrowing ride down Old South Road back to our house. The storm lingered into Tuesday the 2nd. I remember my dad being wicked angry because they hadn't gotten a delivery that was expected at RB Corcoran. The storm is one of my "cult favorites" because it was so localized (ORH only got 0.8" and BOS got 1.2") It's a pure SEMASS Special.

some memories: 3/16-17/04: Looked like it was going to be a bust when I woke up that morning, because the sun was shining brilliantly. Todd Gross (remember him?) even said "Don't be fooled by the sunshine." The snow came down thick and heavy on ACK, but halfway through we switched over to ZR. We ended up getting 3.5" out of it. 3/18/04: I believe this was OES, but it could have been attached to the previous storm. I recorded another inch at my grandmother's house on New Mill Street in ACK. 3/19/04: This was Mother Nature redeeming herself for the bust she gave us. 7 inches when all was said and done. The next day I went sledding in a short sleeve shirt and blue jeans. 12/31/98-1/1/99: This was a surprise event for us out on the islands. I think, *THINK* we got 8 inches out of this. Edgartown got 0.3 inches. CQX didn't receive anything. I've tried emailing BOX but they don't really know much about it either.