Buried in Snow: Massachusetts Sees Record Amount of Snowfall in One Week

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. How does your community stack up?

Find out below with the top snowfall recorded by county, according to the National Weather Service:

Barnstable County

Bourne -- 3.5 inches

Centerville -- 2.8 inches

Bristol County

Taunton -- 11.2 inches

Mansfield -- 9.8 inches

Rehoboth -- 8.3 inches

Dighton -- 7.3 inches

Assonet -- 6.0 inches

Essex County

Marblehead -- 17 inches

Lynn -- 17 inches

Manchester -- 16.4 inches

Topsfield -- 16 inches

West Peabody -- 15 inches

Franklin County

Ashfield -- 13 inches

Greenfield -- 12 inches

Heath -- 12 inches

Colrain -- 11 inches

Orange -- 11 inches

Hampden County

Feeding Hills -- 15.5 inches

Agawam -- 14 inches

Wales -- 14 inches

Longmeadow -- 12.5 inches

Springfield -- 11.9 inches

Hampshire County

Plainfield -- 11.3 inches

Ware -- 11 inches

Amherst -- 10.8 inches

Pelham -- 10.8 inches

Westhampton -- 10 inches

Middlesex County

Wakefield -- 17 inches

Lexington -- 16.3 inches

Wilmington -- 16 inches

West Newton -- 16 inches

North Reading -- 16 inches

Norfolk County

Milton -- 16.5 inches

North Weymouth -- 14.5 inches

Braintree -- 14.4 inches

Millis -- 13.8 inches

South Weymouth -- 13.5 inches

Plymouth County

Duxbury -- 14 inches

Hingham -- 14 inches

Norwell -- 13 inches

Kingston -- 9.8 inches

Rockland -- 9.5 inches

Suffolk County

Chelsea -- 17.3 inches

East Boston -- 16.2 inches

Winthrop -- 16.2 inches

Brighton -- 15 inches

Worcester County

Leominster -- 20.7 inches

Lunenberg -- 19 inches

Sterling -- 18.7 inches

Fitchburg -- 18.5 inches

Worcester -- 17.4 inches

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