“They are the housewife’s barometer, foretelling her when it will rain and are prognostic. One year so many herring were caught, they were dumped in the Parker River, and Herring did not return for many years.
The foot of Summer Street was the best landing. In the late 19th Century, most of the men around the river would look forward to “herringing” when fall arrived. Now in its 14th year of celebrating beauty & community, Ipswich Illumination features a collection of interactive art installations, live music, poetry, projection, bonfires, and more, along the Ipswich River. Ipswich Illumination, October 6, 7 & 8, 2023 Special thanks to Bryan Grasso and Beth Myer from Ipswich ICAM. 6: The Blizzard of '78 (Feb.We’re back with Episode Eight of Destination Ipswich with town historian Gordon Harris, and Carla Villa from the Ipswich River Watershed Association, who takes us on a couple of trails at the IRWA headquarters, then joins us for a kayak trip to the Mill Dam and back. The town and other parts of Cape Cod recorded 27 inches of snow on that day in 1969, making local residents wonder if they had another backbreaking season of shoveling in store. This sequel didn’t compare to the February 1969's 100-Hour Snowstorm, but Falmouth weather spotters say the area’s single-day total for Nov. “The primary reason for the high snowfall totals was that the storm causing all of this havoc was very slow moving, allowing snow to accumulate to these record and near-record amounts,” climate recordkeeper Mike Squires wrote in a 2016 post on. Two feet of snow is a lot of snow on any single day, but that winter storm is made more notable by the fact that it happened during a stretch in which it snowed for four straight days in Massachusetts, from Feb. The fourth spot on this list of Massachusetts' snowiest single days in history belongs to the 27.4 inches the Milton area received on Feb. According to the CDC, the storm also caused significant flooding that reached as high as 5 feet in Boston. The storm dumped 4 feet and created snowdrifts as high as 10 feet in parts of the Berkshires, Centers for Disease Control records note. 13, 1992, according to National Weather Service records. 13 is National Cocoa Day, and it was likely an appropriate winter treat on that day in 1992.īesieged by a nor’easter carrying snow, sleet, rain and high winds, Franklin registered 28 inches of snowfall on Dec. The entire state spent the next day digging out. The Brockton and South Shore areas were hit hardest by the blizzard, with many cities and towns getting more than 2 feet of snow. How much snow fell: Stoughton hits snowfall 'jackpot' as Brockton area slammed by blizzard Boston tied its record for most snowfall in one day – at 23.6 inches, National Weather Service spotters reported. Massachusetts and much of New England was covered in thick, fluffy snow over the more than 24-hour period.
29, 2022, it dropped a record 30.9 inches in Stoughton, according to the National Weather Service, giving it the No. While a monster blizzard named Kenan tied Boston's single-day snowfall record on Jan. Worcester recorded 53.4 inches in February 2015 as part of its snowiest month on record, but the top season in Worcester was 1992-93, at 120.1 total inches. That includes the Milton area (a staggering 83.6 total inches in February 2015 alone 150.8 total inches during the 2014-15 winter season) and the Boston area (64.8 inches in February 2015 110.6 inches during the 2014-15 season). While none of the February 2015 storms stacked up to Juno individually, cumulatively they made both the month and the season the snowiest on record for many parts of the state. How location and elevation matter: Why Worcester gets more snow than mostĭays later, the Northeast was hit with the first of several additional snowstorms.
The city received about 10 more inches of snow than Boston recorded on the same day.Īll told, Worcester recorded an all-time high of 34.5 inches of snow over the two-day storm.
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