Is the Snow Over for North Reading? Not Likely

By Paige McAtee (Patch Staff)

The recent streak of 40-degree weather days suggests the freezing winter temperatures have been replaced by signs of spring.

This warm weather will continue into Wednesday. Boston should reach a high of 52 degrees, The Weather Channel reports.

This break from the -20 degree wind chills may get the people of Massachusetts thinking that this mountainous snowfall is behind them, but they shouldn’t get too excited. History shows it is likely that the snow isn’t over yet.

About 25 percent of previous Boston winters have seen snowfalls toward the end of March or later, FiveThirtyEight reports.

So the bad news is that it’s likely Massachusetts will see more snow, but the good news is Boston is inching toward its snowfall record.

The city, with a current total snowfall of 105.7 inches, needs just 2 inches to make the winter of 2014 to 2015 the snowiest winter on record, according to The Weather Channel.

The previous record of 107.6 inches was set in 1995 to 1996.

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