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Boston received a record-breaking 27.1 inches (69 cm) of snow; Providence also broke a record with 27.6 inches (70 cm); [3] Atlantic City broke an all-time storm accumulation with 20.1 inches (51 cm); two Philadelphia suburban towns in Chester County received 20.2 inches (51 cm), while the City of Philadelphia received 16.0 inches (41 cm). [5]
Abandoned cars line Route 6A in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, one of the harder hit areas, receiving as much as 30.5 inches (77.5 cm) of snow during the blizzard.. The North American blizzard of 2005 was a three-day storm that affected large areas of the northern United States, dropping more than 3 feet (0.9 m) of snow in parts of southeastern Massachusetts, as well as much of the Boston ...
Snowfall can often exceed 100 inches or 2.5 metres annually in the higher elevations. ... Boston has seen 70 °F or 21.1 °C twice in recorded history during February ...
Boston's famed Fenway Park reported a solid 6 inches of snow on the hallowed ground of the Boston Red Sox, while the city's Logan Airport received 5.2 inches. It was the largest snow accumulation ...
At the time the 25.4 inches (65 cm) of snow that fell at Boston's Logan International Airport was the third-biggest snowstorm in Boston history, the Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978's 27.1 inches (69 cm), and the February 1969 nor'easter's 26.3 inches (67 cm). The storm was the biggest on record in the month of April and made April ...
Boston received 24.9 inches (63 cm) of snow, the fifth highest total in the city from a single storm. It was the third-largest snowfall in Worcester, Massachusetts, at 28.7 inches (73 cm). [81] Connecticut set a 24 hour snowfall record at 36 inches (91 cm). [82]
When the storm was off the coast of New Jersey, bands of heavy snow formed one after another, increasing already-hefty snowfall amounts even further. There were reports of snow plows getting stuck in the snow late at night on December 26 and the early morning of the 27th. On the 26th, visibilities in some towns were less than 0.1 miles.
All cities from Washington, D.C. to Boston were covered in 15–30 inches (38–76 cm) of snow [2] and those cities were brought to a standstill due to problems caused by temperatures and the snow. In Baltimore and Boston, this was the biggest snowstorm on record, with 28.2 and 27.5 inches (71.6 and 69.9 cm) respectively.