Charlottesville is 2 1/2 inches from making its misery official.
That’s how close the latest snowfall total at the University of Virginia’s McCormick Observatory put the area to the all-time winter snowfall high score, said Jerry Stenger, director of the climatology office at UVa.
The 14.7 inches that fell Friday and Saturday puts the area’s season total at 52.2 inches, nipping at the heels of the 54.7 inches received in the winter of 1995-96, he said.
“We’re in historic territory here, no question about it,” Stenger said Sunday.
The margin could be made up as soon as this week, with a storm expected Tuesday into Wednesday in a position to perhaps push the area just past the record mark.
Friday and Saturday’s storm was also the eighth-largest storm to ever hit Charlottesville.
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