Region Sees 40.5 Inches of Snow in Last Week--A New Record

By Kasandra Brabaw (Patch Staff)

You may have thought absolutely nothing could keep people in Massachusetts from celebrating the Patriots’ awesome, nail-biting Super Bowl win. But, as it turns out, wicked huge amounts of snow can – and did.

Well, maybe it didn’t stop Super Bowl celebrations, but the weather certainly has delayed them. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh rescheduled Massachusetts’s biggest post-win party, the Duck Boat Parade, from its original date on Tuesday, Feb. 3 to Wednesday, Feb. 4 due to bad weather in the forecast this week.

But Super Bowl celebrations aren’t the only thing affected by the massive amounts of snow that has fallen in Massachusetts. Students in Malden haven’t gone to school since last Monday and most other schools in the state have had at least four snow days in the past two weeks.

Although the heavily reported and anticipated blizzard of 2015 delivered on its promise to dump boatloads of snow on Massachusetts, the snowfall didn’t stop there. And Snowpocalypse Part 2, as some have dubbed this week’s weather on social media, has pushed some parts of the state into record-breaking levels of snow.

Within seven days, starting with Jan. 27 and ending Feb. 2, Boston had recorded 40.5 inches of snow, the most to ever fall on the city within a single week. This snowfall breaks the previous record of 31.2 inches from 1996 by 9.3 inches.

And Monday’s snowfall – Boston recorded 16.2 inches – caused flight delays and cancellations at Logan Airport. Many flights were delays and cancelled at Logan Airport on Monday, Feb. 1 (but don’t worry, that didn’t stop the Patriots from coming home.)

From the Groundhog Day storm alone, some parts of Massachusetts saw more than 20 inches of snow.