Boston's winter is snowiest since 1872

Boston's miserable winter is now also its snowiest going back to 1872.

The National Weather Service (NWS) sent a tweet with news of record-breaking flurries at 7 p.m. Sunday night, “Congratulations Boston! Snowiest Season on Record” adding the 2.9 inches that day gave the city a 108.6 inch total for the season.

"Superbowls, World Series', Stanley Cups, and snowfall records. We are truly a title city," said Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, on Twitter. "There will be no parade." 

Boston.com trumpeted the achievement, saying “Boston is a city of champions. Orr scoring the Stanley Cup-winning overtime goal. … And now you, the average Bostonian, shoveling out your buried vehicle, … are added to the annals of glory.”

Meteorologist Mike Wankum of Boston’s WCVB said “Congratulations are pouring in from all over the country.”

"I don't feel a sense of accomplishment," said 34-year-old Tyler Comings, an economist, as he walked on newly snowy sidewalks in Cambridge. "I think other people take more delight in it than do people in Boston."

Most of the snow has fallen since Jan. 26, according to The Washington Post, which meant recent discussions of the seemingly endless snowfalls in Boston have had a less triumphant, more cabin-fevered tone.

On Feb. 8, while issuing the latest blizzard warning, Walsh said, "I'm frustrated. The last thing I want to be talking about is another 24 inches of snow. I want to move on to something else."

Schools closed repeatedly. Transportation snarls became the norm. Workers struggled to get to work, and those paid hourly, struggled to make rent. There was so much snow the city has had to dump it in the harbor to get rid of the stuff.

“I think it was worth it but now that we’ve broken it, it’s time for it to stop snowing,” said Katie Sak, 20, an Emerson College student told the Boston Globe on Sunday. “I’m done with the snow.”

The official measurement taken Sunday evening topped a season record of 107.9 inches set in 1995-96, according to the NWS in Taunton, Mass.

“It’s pretty impressive — that’s over 100 years of record-keeping that we beat,” said Matt Doody, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton told the Globe.

The final dusting came in a snowstorm that was relatively tame after a record-setting monthly snowfall of 64.9 inches in February.

The worst previous single month was January 2005 when 43.3 inches fell.

This official winter snowfall, measured from December through February this year, was 99.4 inches. That was the snowiest for the winter period, beating 91.5 inches in 1993-94.

The season snowfall record is measured from July 1 through June 30, and takes in autumn and spring.

Forecasters note snow can still mount up this year. March 1993 had 38.9 inches, March 1916 had 33 inches and The Globe reported the April Fools’ Day Storm of 1997 deposited more than 24 inches of snow.

Al Jazeera with wire services