![]() ![]() In fact, most of it was gone within a week. ![]() (WBZ-TV graphic)ĭespite the huge piles and drifts of snow, it didn't stick around long at all. In Worcester, a ridiculous 33.0" of snow fell, the most ever in a single storm in their history (later to be topped in 2015). The city also broke its 24-hour snowfall record dating back to the Blizzard of 1978! The official total at Logan Airport was 25.4 inches which still stands as the fourth biggest snowstorm on record for the city of Boston. Nearly 700,000 homes and businesses lost power in the Northeast and many were left stranded at the airport for days. Trees snapped under the weight of the heavy wet snow, power lines were down across Massachusetts. By dawn on April Fools morning, 2-to-3 feet of snow blanketed the region. Boston received a foot of snow in four hours, between 11 p.m. Three inches per hour snowfall rates were common throughout the night. The snow came in like a wall during the evening of March 31. Yet, here was Barry, already a veteran forecaster on WBZ-TV, calling for an epic snowstorm. Temperatures had been in the 50s and 60s for the prior five days and Boston had a high of 63 degrees that Sunday, which also happened to be Easter. Barry Burbank was calling for a "massive storm." How could this be? Many wondered if it was all a cruel April Fools' joke. Shelby Scott was reporting live in Worcester. (Weather station: Logan International Airport, USA). It was the great April Fools' Day Blizzard. BOSTON (CBS) - Twenty five years ago today, what were you doing? Were you in New England? If so, than you surely remember, perhaps even have a story about March 31 and April 1, 1997. ![]()
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