Boston's Brutal Winter Sets Record

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Boston's made history by having the snowiest, and probably most miserable, season since 1872.

The official measurement of 108.6 inches at Logan International Airport Sunday night topped a season record of 107.6 inches set in 1995-96, according to the National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts.

"Superbowls, World Series', Stanley Cups, and snowfall records," Mayor Martin J. Walsh tweeted. "We are truly a title city. There will be no parade."

The final 2.9 inches came after a record-setting monthly snowfall of 64.9 inches in February.

The worst previous single month was January 2005 when 43.3 inches fell.

This official winter snowfall, measured from December through February this year, was 99.4 inches. That was the snowiest for the winter period, beating 91.5 inches in 1993-94.

The season snowfall record is measured from July 1 through June 30.

http://www.news4jax.com/weather/bostons-brutal-winter-sets-record/31818228
 
I saw on the news that schools might cancel three holidays for make-up snow days, and stretch the school year to the end of June.
 
Yeah my granddaughter miss school on a Monday 3 weeks in a row , and had Tuesday too a couple of times. Kids had an extra long weekend but they'll get a shorter summer vacation. Kids could not have any recesses for a whole month b/c it was too cold and too much snow in the playground .
 
Haha I remember the year of my high school graduation... Because of a combination of nasty weather and the fact that our graduation date was set so early, they forced all of us seniors to go to school for 4 hours on Saturday for a few weeks out of the last quarter. Odd... But they said that it was due to the fact that we needed to meet a certain hourly requirement in order to graduate. The remaining junior, frosh, and sophomore classes didn't have to since they automatically got done with school a week later. It was odd....
 
That was not odd, students have to go school for 180 days in most states .
Some schools out here did not get some vacation days to made up for the snow days . We had so much snow that DEP allowed my city and some other towns and cities to dump the snow into the river or ocean. I hated seeing that happen .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
That was not odd, students have to go school for 180 hours in most states .
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180 days

Some schools out here did not get some vacation days to made up for the snow days . We had so much snow that DEP allowed my city and some other towns and cities to dump the snow into the river or ocean. I hated seeing that happen .
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Why do you hate that?
 
whatdidyousay! said:
It's illegal to dump snow into the water b/c of the chemicals and salt used to treat the roads . My city had to get permission from the Department of Environmental Protection to dump the snow into the water . There has been a ban on this for years.
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I see. I forgot that it was the dirty snow from the roads. I was thinking of fresh-fallen snow that gets scooped up.
 
Reba said:
I see. I forgot that it was the dirty snow from the roads. I was thinking of fresh-fallen snow that gets scooped up.
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Yeah ,the snow had oil from the cars too and trash in it too. :( I saw the trucks filled with dirty snow near the water and I was hoping it was not being dumped into the river. I read online it was going into our water.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Yeah ,the snow had oil from the cars too and trash in it too. :( I saw the trucks filled with dirty snow near the water and I was hoping it was not being dumped into the river. I read online it was going into our water.
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Even if they didn't scoop the snow into the river and ocean, I assume the runoff from the dirty snow would eventually end up there anyway. In most places, when snow melts on the roads, it runs into the storm drains, which flow to other sources, such as the rivers and ocean. Or does your storm water go thru some kind of treatment plant before it goes out to sea?
 
snow melter machine... it claims to be able to clean dirty snow so that water exits the machine clean.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaVHi9Mq56I[/ame]
 
Reba said:
Even if they didn't scoop the snow into the river and ocean, I assume the runoff from the dirty snow would eventually end up there anyway. In most places, when snow melts on the roads, it runs into the storm drains, which flow to other sources, such as the rivers and ocean. Or does your storm water go thru some kind of treatment plant before it goes out to sea?
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Yes we have a treatment plant for storm.
and my city can't afford snow melting machine . Boston had to use one from NYC.
 
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