Blizzard Benchmark: Top 10 Daily Snowfalls

The current blizzard developing from New York northward through southeast New England is being widely touted as a potential record-breaking event. Here are the top 10 daily snowfall amounts (inches), from NOAA/National Weather Service data, for the major climate reporting locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southern Maine. The stations are Boston (BOS), Hartford (BDL), Providence (PVD), Worcester (ORH), and Portland (PWM).

	BOS		BDL		PVD		ORH		PWM
1	23.6	2/17/2003	24.0	1/12/2011	20.8	1/8/1996	21.1	1/12/2011	22.3	12/17/1970
2	22.4	4/1/1997	21.9	2/12/2006	18.3	2/4/1961	19.5	2/14/1962	21.0	12/28/1946
3	21.0	1/20/1978	17.7	12/29/1945	18.0	2/6/1978	18.8	2/17/2003	21.0	1/26/1888
4	19.3	2/16/1958	17.2	2/20/1934	16.4	1/23/2005	18.8	2/4/1961	20.4	1/24/1935
5	19.0	2/7/1978	16.7	12/19/1945	14.8	1/28/1943	18.4	1/20/1961	20.4	2/26/1934
6	17.5	2/12/2006	16.3	2/5/2001	14.7	2/17/2003	18.1	1/23/2005	19.8	3/13/1939
7	15.0	2/20/1934	16.2	2/4/1926	14.7	3/19/1956	18.0	11/27/1898	17.5	3/6/1887
8	14.7	1/28/1897	16.2	2/20/1921	14.4	2/8/1945	17.3	12/12/1992	17.1	2/23/1967
9	14.6	1/12/2011	16.0	2/14/1914	14.3	12/20/2009	16.9	2/12/2006	17.0	2/9/1969
10	14.4	2/4/1961	15.0	2/17/2003	14.2	2/24/1969	15.8	3/12/1959	16.9	3/13/1993