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Jeremy Reiner reports it's been 1,019 days since the last time Boston has seen six or more inches of snow in a single day, the fifth longest such streak since 1891.

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... (on Reddit) we haven't even gotten 4" of snow in that time. By far the longest streak without 4" since record keeping started.
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I know times have changed a lot since 1891, but I doubt there was any snow (let alone 4+ inches) during the summer even then.

This is the first time we have had two consecutive seasons without a 4" snowfall, so that's the big jump. This is kind of a silly chart since the progressions were that it took until 2012 to have a single year without 4", and then another 112 years to get to two.

Longest consecutive day streaks between n inches of snow:

n=1: 386 ending 12/15/1937 (the winter of 1936-1937 had 4" of snow on Nov 24, and no other day after had more than 1"). Current: 330 days, 5th place
n=2: 664 ending 1/8/1974. No day with >2" of snow between March '72 and Jan '74 (only year with two seasons). Current: 348 days, 5th place
n=3: 688 days ending 1/13/2013. Current 680, second place. Likely to overtake 2013.
n=4: 1020 days, current
n=5: 1054 days ending 12/25/1909. Current: 1020, 2nd. Will we have 5" within the next month?
n=6: 1772 days ending 12/11/1992, about 5 years. Current: 1020 (5th place)
n=9: 2241 days ending 2/17/1952, about 6 years. Current: 1047, 14th place.

That said, at higher snowfalls you get into big storms which may span two days and xmacis doesn't do well with that natively.

On a rational, environmental level, I'm depressed as I know it's just an indication of how much humans have fucked things up and things are only getting worse.

But on a personal, let-it-all-burn level, I'm delighted because I hate snow (in Boston) would be happy if another flake never graced the city streets again.

When there finally is a real snowfall - combine several years of everybody being out of practice with several years of being used to the police not giving a shit about traffic enforcement. Will be a REAL good day to stay home and especially to not be a pedestrian

FWIW, the T plans for every expected snowstorm like it's the return of 2014-15 all over again. It's been disappointed every time so far, but if it ever does materialize, they're ready.

I moved to Florida to get away from the snow, so of course it just stopped snowing up there!

…. snow. Take away the wind. Both are on my holiday wish list.