Blizzard of 2026 Storm Totals

[40/70 Benchmark]

Think I gave you my shameful total ... 10".

[40/70 Benchmark]

10 hours ago, Greg said:

That 21" in Andover looks little high/suspect. Here in Wilmington there was about 13"-14" (according to my best measurements) Wakefield had about 18" and the other spotter down Wilmington Road near Pinehurst had 15.2".

Yea, someone measured in a drift. I had 18" drifts in my driveway...other spots had 3"...average it out to 10".

[40/70 Benchmark]

11 hours ago, dendrite said:

 

 

[40/70 Benchmark]

18 hours ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

10.5 - 11.5 in methuen by using a more protected spot on the ssw of my home....front of home had drifts to 24-30 inches.

Yes, about right....just noise-like difference from what I came up with.

[40/70 Benchmark]

16 hours ago, FRWEATHA said:

Just took a walk around and I’m confident in saying we exceeded ‘78 here in Fall River. 

Yea, this was your '78 given it was a bit south of that one. Now it's my turn to one a bit north of it....probably either the day after I crack, or when I'm bed-ridden and shitting myself.

[40/70 Benchmark]

16 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

If you have a very windy storm like this one and you measure downwind from a roof, you definitely can get inflated totals. These are always so hard to get measurements in. You are essentially reporting a measurement with a legit 10% error bar. 

Yes...every storm I check the forecast and look at the wind direction to inform on which side of my house to plant the board.

[EastonSN+]

12 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Ryan's 

Odd they have my 16 reported on the NWS site however not represented here.

[ORH_wxman]

8 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

Odd they have my 16 reported on the NWS site however not represented here.

That map isn’t quite final. Still has BOS at 16.9

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

That map isn’t quite final. Still has BOS at 16.9

Yea, they have me at 9...give me that last inch!!

[SJonesWX]

4 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

...give me that last inch!!

that's definately what she said

[40/70 Benchmark]

7 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

that's definately what she said

Dude, I earned that last inch...it fell while I was breaking my back, and vault-jumping to get the shovel loads over the 6' high bankings that line my driveway. I honestly can't imagine having gotten 40" instead of 10".

[JKEisMan]

8 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Thank you, i have a question there is a Sherman 1.2E that came in with 22" and a 4N New Fairfield that has 21" on the interactive map. I am assuming the 4N New Fairfield is you? Are you also the Sherman one in cocorahs or is that someone different? They are very close to each other and often can be labeled differently on different reporting systems. I'm going to assume they are not the same until i hear otherwise. thanks. 

Actually no, I don’t typically report in.  There is one person/trained spotter in New Fairfield who I often see on the roundups, however, not me (I believe they are more on the northeast part of town).  I think the Sherman one is separate, yes. There’s also a good personal weather site, shermanctweather.org, though further north in Sherman, that has lots of data.  Finally, I follow Western CT Weather (Jack Drake) on FB and he posts lots of data as well.  Quite a few weather weenies in this area.  The hills/elevation in the area support good snow. 
Thanks for all the work and time you put in to collecting data, it’s really amazing and appreciated.

[JKEisMan]

Btw, had another 3” with the system today, bringing season total to 71.5

[tamarack]

17 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

The question concerns whether Central Park measured when the snow stopped falling or measured at 7 pm when a possible small amount of snow had melted due to the temperature's rising above freezing for several hours.

According to OKX's 2 pm PNS, Central Park reported 19.7" at 1 pm.

There were several hours of additional measurable precipitation:

Although the amount of additional snowfall (probably a few tenths of an inch to just over an inch was relatively small, it would be large in terms of storm ranking implications:

 

It will never be changed, and I don't know the measuring protocol in 1947, but I think that year's storm was the biggest.  It's based mostly on pack increase/persistence.  2006's pack never topped 17", 2016 boosted pack from zero to 22" (and had similar LE as '47) while 1947 lifted pack from 2" to 26" (NYC's tallest) and was still at 24" two days later.
(And of course, 1888 is somewhat a guess as the flakes were flying horizontally.)

[The 4 Seasons]

17 minutes ago, JKEisMan said:

Actually no, I don’t typically report in.  There is one person/trained spotter in New Fairfield who I often see on the roundups, however, not me (I believe they are more on the northeast part of town).  I think the Sherman one is separate, yes. There’s also a good personal weather site, shermanctweather.org, though further north in Sherman, that has lots of data.  Finally, I follow Western CT Weather (Jack Drake) on FB and he posts lots of data as well.  Quite a few weather weenies in this area.  The hills/elevation in the area support good snow. 
Thanks for all the work and time you put in to collecting data, it’s really amazing and appreciated.

ok thanks, yeah i know Jack. 

Thats great to know because those two reports line up extremely well so part of me thought they were the same reporter, good stuff. 

Vary narrow band of 20"+ in W CT, those reports are really close which is good for such a big long duration windy storm, i was just surprised to see 22 and 21 right next to each other

[donsutherland1]

35 minutes ago, tamarack said:

It will never be changed, and I don't know the measuring protocol in 1947, but I think that year's storm was the biggest.  It's based mostly on pack increase/persistence.  2006's pack never topped 17", 2016 boosted pack from zero to 22" (and had similar LE as '47) while 1947 lifted pack from 2" to 26" (NYC's tallest) and was still at 24" two days later.
(And of course, 1888 is somewhat a guess as the flakes were flying horizontally.)

It won't be changed, as the sensor had issues and the 0.15" precipitation that was recorded after the 1 pm observation was attributed to the failed sensor. 1947 ranks as NYC's 3rd biggest snowfall with 26.4". It was exceeded by a 26.9" snowfall in 2006 and 27.5" snowfall in 2016.

[tamarack]

15 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Remember when he drove 6 hrs to Maine to measure a Coops depth after they posted 72 only to go to the wrong town lol 

Andover, Maine - Feb. 2017
7    19   10   0.03    1.0   34
8    13    9    1.15     6.0   39
9    42   11       0        0   39
10   42  -2   0.20   6.0   44
11    10   -5       T      T    44
12    11     0   0.19   6.5    50   
13    19   11   0.90  14.0   62
14   22   13   0.15    2.5   64
15   25    7    0.03   1.5   65
16   27   13   0.95  14.0  79
17   26   18       T      T    76

He saw those monster depths and went searching, in vain.  Unfortunately, he didn't understand snow plowing in Maine, where they don't just clear the road but push back the banks to be ready for the next storm.
He made a left turn in Andover and headed up the East B Road, quickly ran out of houses and then out of phone reception as he was behind the Baldpates, and with lowering gas and not knowing where he was . . .   
When back in RI he posted a withering critique of Maine, its roads, its snow, its reporting, etc.

My snarky response suggested that his G-P-S should have been augmented by an M-A-P.