Northeast Snow Totals Likely To Surpass Past 2 Winters Combined, Including Boston, New York, Washington

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S​nowfall totals this season from Boston to New York and Washington, D.C., are likely to soon surpass what those major cities saw in the past two snow-starved winters combined.

B​ack-to-back winters with extremely meager snow have made this possible. I​t's not that this has been an exceedingly snowy winter along the Interstate 95 corridor. In fact, Boston, New York and Philadelphia are running snowfall deficits for this season as a whole, and Washington, D.C., is about on par with its average through early February.

B​elow is a look at where totals stood for this season through Thursday.

W​inter storms through next week could help surpass combined totals the past two winters. As of Thursday, Washington, D.C., only had to pick up 0.1 inches to top the 8.4 combined inches they saw the last two seasons. Boston needed more than 5 inches and New York City needed more than 2 inches.

B​outs of snow in those cities through next week could supply what's needed to surpass those amounts.

Snowfall was much less than 50% of average in the past two winters combined from Boston to Washington, D.C. While last winter provided a bit more snow from New York City to the mid-Atlantic compared to two years ago, totals still lagged behind seasonal averages.

S​nowfall over the past two combined winters was just 16% of average in New York City. Right behind were Boston and Philadelphia at 23% and 25%, respectively.

W​ashington, D.C., was slightly higher at 31% of average snowfall, mostly due to the 8 inches it piled up last winter.

Incredibly, Boston failed to pick up at least 20 inches of snow in back-to-back seasons for the first time in the city's weather records dating to the late 1800s.

Chris Dolce has been a senior digital meteorologist with weather.com for nearly 15 years after beginning his career with The Weather Channel in the early 2000s.