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.

 

[The 4 Seasons]

Snowfall totals map for this historic February 22-23, 2026 Blizzard.

As always thanks for everyone who sent me reports. Data is from here, cocorahs, COOP and official sites. This L Northeast is all i have done so far after about 16 hours it was a massive undertaking. I tried to include all reports but some don't fit and had to be excluded. The site will be updated soon but these maps are not up yet. This will be the 2nd historic storm of the season and ill have everything including a full radar animation up on the site in the coming days. 

There is some incomplete data on the PNS and NWS snowfall maps so beware. BOX is only using 1-day cocorahs totals for some reason and not including both days, so a ton of the reports are very low that say "cocorahs" next to them. OKX did the same thing but instead of only including the 23rd they mostly just used the 22nd. 

On a technical note there is exactly 398 reports on here from well over 1,000 sifted through, probably closer to 2k. This was only the 4th time ever including a 40"+ snowfall contour for all the events i've done. Gotta say this is one the coolest looking snowfall maps ive ever produced. 

I mentioned earlier the forecast for CT was very good to great. For the overall region it was probably a C/C+?  Too low for SE MA/NJ even though i put 24"+ in text, that is not sufficient and it needed a whole new range of 24-36+. Too high for NW MA and Catskills. Our final call was the same as the first but i had a 2nd and final update ready to go where i had SE MA/NJ in a 24-36" range but never posted/released it. I figured the first call was good and didn't want to change the map if i didnt have to but in retrospect im kicking myself a bit for not doing so. Oh well. 

The SNE only map is not done yet but will be coming soon. CT as well. If there is anything missing or needs to be adjusted let me know. With these big storms, this probably wont be the true final....with an error or two or additional/changed reports needed. 

First & Final Call

 

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, donsutherland1 said:

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.

I find that difficult to believe given the visibility over those 3 hours.

18z 1/4sm
19z 1/4sm
20z 1 1/4sm
21z 2sm

But it is what it is. 

[RedSky]

6 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

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

I feel every molecule of your pain, only ten disgusting inches

The southeast corner of my county hit 22"

 

[Greg]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

I find that difficult to believe given the visibility over those 3 hours.

18z 1/4sm
19z 1/4sm
20z 1 1/4sm
21z 2sm

But it is what it is. 

Both those snowfall totals that beat 1947 were measured differently then back then. I believe these were measured and wiped off the board every 6 hours vs back then letting it accumulate until the storms ending. Unfortunately, it is what it is. Unless someone can go back and find a settled depth (If recorded) and has the power to change those numbers. Again, it is what it is.

[dendrite]

Where does the 26.4” in 1947 come from?

The original COOP form has 25.8”

[dendrite]

It’s weird. The max/mins in nowdata are the same as this. The total precipitation is the same. The snow depth is the same. But the daily precip and snow numbers are slightly different. 

[crownweather]

Ended up with 11.4 inches of snow here in Sturbridge, Mass.  Absolute crazy that just 25 miles to the SE, Providence recorded that 37.9 inches of snow.  If only that low had tucked just a few miles closer.....

[tamarack]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Where does the 26.4” in 1947 come from?

The original COOP form has 25.8”

Different obs time?

Data from CLIMOD:
26:   31   25   2.36"  26.1"   4"
27:   35   29   0.04"   0.3"  26"
From the above report:
26:  31   25   0.26"   3.7"    4"
27:  35   29   2.14"   22.1"  26"

Same temps, same LE, same depth readings (nearest inch) 24-30; 2/2/4/26/25/24/23.  IIRC, NYC was (and still is) using noon for depth measurement.  I wonder if the coop reported precip/snowfall at noon as well.  Would make sense for a mid-morning start, also one newspaper article I read years ago stated that the snowfall ended shortly after midnight on 12/27.

[Greg]

26 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Where does the 26.4” in 1947 come from?

The original COOP form has 25.8”

Excellent find! I remember looking at those. It's very possible that it snowed a little longer afterwards and was never updated at that time is the only conclusion. Only a 0.6" difference between the two. 26.4" was the widely accepted total back then.

[dendrite]

10 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Different obs time?

Data from CLIMOD:
26:   31   25   2.36"  26.1"   4"
27:   35   29   0.04"   0.3"  26"
From the above report:
26:  31   25   0.26"   3.7"    4"
27:  35   29   2.14"   22.1"  26"

Same temps, same LE, same depth readings (nearest inch) 24-30; 2/2/4/26/25/24/23.  IIRC, NYC was (and still is) using noon for depth measurement.  I wonder if the coop reported precip/snowfall at noon as well.  Would make sense for a mid-morning start, also one newspaper article I read years ago stated that the snowfall ended shortly after midnight on 12/27.

Yeah…strange that the rain totals add up to the same monthly amount but the new snow doesn’t. They do however for Jan 48.

[dendrite]

19 minutes ago, Greg said:

Excellent find! I remember looking at those. It's very possible that it snowed a little longer afterwards and was never updated at that time is the only conclusion. 26.4" was the widely accepted total back then.

I guess that’s a possibility. You’d think they would finalize the numbers before sending it out at the end of the month. They got the liquid correct.

[dendrite]

Above the max/min temp columns does that have the abbreviation Mdt? Maybe those were midnight readings and everything else was 7am and then there were supplemental midnight rain and snow obs in addition.

That would imply to me that they cleared multiple times.

[Greg]