Pedestrians walk single file through snow banks on a Beacon Street sidewalk Friday in Boston. A snowstorm Sunday had the potential to break the city's seasonal snowfall record. (Elise Amendola, The Associated Press)
BOSTON — After cold and snow that set February records, southern New England is entering March with another round that could push Boston over its 20-year-old snowfall record.
With 102 inches, Boston needs 5.7 more to break the 1995-1996 record of 107.6.
Snowfall of 4 to 6 inches was expected by early Monday across the area, with up to 8 inches in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
"We have come this far, we might as well break the record," said William Babcock, National Weather Service meteorologist in the Taunton, Mass., office. "We have a couple of storms to push us over the record. Once that is done, we won't complain if we don't get any more snow."
The snow Sunday night into Monday will be wetter than those earlier in the season, continuing the concern about potential roof collapses.
February was one for the record books in the Northeast. The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University says Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton and Ithaca, N.Y., shivered through their coldest months ever.
The average temperature was 10.9 degrees in Buffalo, beating the 1934 record of 11.4. February record lows were also set in Hartford, Connecticut, at 16.1; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at 20.9; and Portland, Maine at 13.8.
A 3-year-old Lansing, Michigan, girl was hospitalized in critical condition after getting stuck overnight outside her family's apartment during frigid weather.
A relative found the girl on a sidewalk in front of the apartment complex about 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
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