It’s also the snowiest winter since the 1978-1979 season, which set the all-time record of 89.7 inches. That already earns this winter the honor of the fifth-snowiest seen in the city since 1884. This season, Chicago has been hit with 67.9 inches of snow, a good 41.5 inches above normal. 9, 1934.Ĭhicago, Ill.: Much snowier than usual, colder than averageīut really, it’s the Midwesterners who have the bragging rights to this season’s misery. But that’s practically tropical compared to the January-low record of -13 degrees, set in 1882, and the all-time-low record of -18 degrees, set on Feb. 4, when the polar vortex was gripping most of the country. The city’s lowest January temperature was 2 degrees Fahrenheit, set on Jan.
The mean temperature in Boston for January 2014 was 27.4 degrees F, hovering just around the normal average of 29 degrees. NWS meteorologist Charlie Foley told the Boston Herald on Monday that this year’s winter probably won’t crack the top 10, in terms of snowfall. That’s above average, but far away from setting any records – the 1995-1996 winter remains comfortable in its top spot in the record books, with 107.6 inches of snow. But the lowest-ever temperature record for Central Park, from February 1934, still stands: -15 degrees Fahrenheit.īoston, Mass.: Not that much snowier than average, a little colder than averageīoston has seen 53.5 inches of snow so far this winter, as of Monday. The polar vortex did bring some frigid weather to the area, with some days setting low-temperature records for specific dates. The coldest average January recorded was in 1918, when the mean temperature was 21.7 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s colder than the average January mean of 32.6 degrees F. The average temperature in Central Park in January 2014 was 28.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures this winter have also been on the colder side, but still short of record breaking.
But if a certain groundhog is to be believed, there’s still at least another 4 weeks of winter to go.Īnd no single snowfall this season has matched the snowstorm of mid-February 2006, which dumped just under 27 inches of snow on Central Park – the all-time record for a single storm. There’s still a bit of a ways to go to get to the all-time snowfall record of 75.6 inches, set in the winter of 1995-1996. Tuesday’s inch of snow brings the 2013-2014 total seasonal snowfall at Central Park to 56.6 inches, enough for the seventh-place spot on the seasonal snowfall records, which go back to 1868.