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Comfortable-Buy-7388 t1_ix0vqww wrote

These numbers make no sense. The New York record is supposedly 45 inches but I have lived here 60 + years and know for a fact that single day snow accumulations have been significantly higher. Today's 60 + inches in Buffalo is not that unusual. I lived in Western NY for many years.

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Tacticalaxel t1_ix17fd6 wrote

Probably depends how they determine what is a day. Is it 24hrs or midnight to midnight? We've definitely gotten more the 35" in a storm, but it was most likely over the course of 36hrs. Also their sources are not anything official.

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Grmmff t1_ix5lmj1 wrote

The current results source says it's single calendar day, so my guess is midnight to midnight.

I'm not sure where someone would find a database of snowfall recorded by the hour. So finding the 24 hour record would take reading historical news articles and a lot more research than looking at a chart. The article doesn't list it's source but I'm guessing the national weather service.

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