SICK OF SNOW

Youngsters here in Alabama are literally begging for snow. I have never heard so many snow requests in my 40+ years of working in weather.

Not so in New England. More and more people in the Northeast are sick of snow and a lot of them are wanting to move to a different climate.

Even before last night's snow, would you believe that Boston had already received 86 inches of snow this winter? That is a whopping 45 inches above normal.

So, overnight and early today, these additional amounts:

8 inches at Bristol and Hartford, Conn.
3 to 4 inches in Eastern Massachusetts, including Boston-Worcester areas.
10 inches at Ashfield and Goshen, Mass.
6 inches at Exeter, N. H.

With temperatures near freezing, it was a heavy, wet snow. The weight of the snow at Exeter, N. H., brought down an 80-foot antenna.