Northeast Snow probably surpass the last 2 winters combined

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  • Snow -Totals in some northeastern cities this season probably surpass the last two winters together.
  • It includes Boston, New York and Washington, DC
  • Snow -Totals have not been heavy this season, but low quantities over the last two winters made this possible.

S NOW FALL APPLY THIS SEASON FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, DC, will probably soon surpass what the big cities saw in the last two snow-expulsed winters combined.

B Ack-to-back winters with extremely lean snow have made this possible. I am not that this has been an extremely snowy winter along the Interstate 95 corridor. In fact, Boston, New York and Philadelphia Snowfall deficits for this season as a whole, and Washington, DC, are on par with its average through the beginning of February.

B Elow is a look at where totals stood for this season through Wednesday.

Snow totals this season through February 5, 2025.

W Inter storms through next week could help surpass combined totals the last two winters. From Wednesday, Washington, DC, had to pick up 0.1 inches to top the 8.4 combined inches, they saw the last two seasons. Boston needed more than 6 inches and New York City needed more than 3 inches, not including what they picked up on Thursday.

B outs of Snow in these cities through next week could deliver what is needed to surpass these amounts.

Philadelphia has the highest fence to climb and needs an additional 6.7 inches.

This graphic shows snowfall for the last two winters combined compared to the average snowfall over two full winters.

Snowfall was much less than 50% of the average in the last two winters combined from Boston to Washington, DC While last winter delivered a little more snow from New York City to Mid-Atlantic compared to two years ago, totals are still lagging behind seasonal average.

S NOW FALL During the last two combined winters was only 16% of the average in New York City. Right at the back, Boston and Philadelphia were 23% and 25% respectively.

W Ashington, DC, was slightly higher at 31% of the average snowfall, mostly because of the 8 inches it stacked up last winter.

Incredibly, Boston could not pick up at least 20 inches of snow in back-to-back seasons for the first time in the city’s weather registries dating from the late 1800s.

Chris Dolce Has been a senior digital meteorologist at Weather.com for almost 15 years after the beginning of his career with the Weather Channel in the early 2000s.