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Michael A. Rawlins, Associate Director, Climate System Research Center, UMass Amherst

BIZARRE: What does climate change have to do with snowstorms - You Need To See This

Boston got socked with nearly 2 feet of snow in late January 2022. Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Bostonians may have grumbled about digging out from almost 2 feet of snow after a historic snowstorm clobbered the Northeast in late January 2022, but it shouldn’t have been a surprise. This part of the U.S. has been seeing a lot of storms like this in recent decades.

In fact, over a century of reliable weather records show many of the Northeast’s heaviest snowfalls have occurred since 1990 – including seven of the top 10 in both Boston and New York.

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