So, I'm sitting here, generally unperturbed by the blizzard yesterday, and it turns out it was the fifth-worst in history:
After further review and the addition of the storm’s last flakes that fell early Monday morning, the final numbers for the historic Super Bowl Blizzard are in. It is interesting to note that this storm fell exactly four years to the days after the city’s 2011 Groundhog Day Blizzard.
The addition snowfall that fell late Sunday and early Monday morning now makes this storm the city’s 5th heaviest snowstorm.
- 584 mm January 26-27, 1967 The Big Snow
- 585 mm January 1-3, 1999 The New Year’s Storm
- 538 mm January 31-February 2, 2011 Groundhog Day Blizzard
- 516 mm January 12-14, 1979 Blizzard of 79
- 490 mm January 31-February 2, 2015 The Super Bowl Blizzard
Huh. So maybe it was a big storm after all.
My coverage of the 2011 storm is here and here.