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The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang also did a top five snowfall list. It's pretty much the same as the Golden Snow Globe's list I referred to earlier, but they do more meterological background.

Like so many other places on this list, February has been the blockbuster month in upstate New York. In Syracuse, 27.9 inches of snow has fallen so far this month — a steady stream of storms that included 8.8 inches on Groundhog Day alone. In fact, Syracuse has seen snow every day since Jan. 29.

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It’s difficult to convey the significance of how many records Boston has obliterated this season — 5-, 7-, 10-, 20-, 30- and 40-day snow records all within a couple of weeks, plus the snowiest February on record.

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Erie and Buffalo — always neck-and-neck in the lake-effect snow belt! It’s usually a good forecast to say that if one is getting lake-effect snow, so is the other.

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No single day this winter has given Buffalo more than nine inches of snow, but sometimes “slow and steady” is good enough. All but two days since Jan. 1 have featured at least a trace of snow for the city.

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Of all the cities that have been hammered by Old Man Winter over the past few weeks, Boston has received the most media coverage (by far). But it turns out that their Woo-town neighbor to the west takes the prize for most snow so far this season.

It's interesting that Syracuse is still up at number 5 despite being a foot below average this year.

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that's because we must share our wealth with the rest of the country... the rest of the country obviously is lacking in snow.

No doubt. Record snowfalls in the northeast, potentially worst drought in a millenia in the west.

Clearly we need a pipeline...Snowstone XL anyone?

I was going to say, sharing it with with the west would be much more useful.

Us not so much, but definitely in California...

Oh, we'd love it. We're having record setting heat waves. And thus, any snow we get goes away real fast. So next summer is going to be an even worse drought than last year was, and that was impressively bad.

I think it's a misdirected delivery, personally. It's possible we're getting the snow intended for the Sierras.