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RECORD EVENT REPORT 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
1220 AM EST TUE FEB 18 2003

...NEW RECORD DAILY SNOWFALL FOR ALBANY...
 
THE 24 HOUR SNOWFALL TOTAL FOR FEBRUARY 17TH 2003 AT ALBANY 
WAS 11.9 INCHES.  THIS BREAKS THE PREVIOUS RECORD DAILY SNOWFALL FOR 
THIS DATE...OF 10.4 INCHES...SET IN 1952.  THIS IS THE FIRST RECORD DAILY 
SNOWFALL FOR FEBRUARY THIS YEAR...BUT THE THIRD SUCH RECORD FOR THE YEAR...
AND THE 6TH FOR THE SEASON.  THERE HAS NOW BEEN AT LEAST ONE NEW DAILY 
SNOWFALL RECORD FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MONTHS BEGINNING IN OCTOBER. ALBANY BREAKS
INTO THE TOP TEN SNOWIEST SEASONS...WITH THIS DAILY SNOWFALL TOTAL.   
A SNOW SEASON RUNS FROM OCTOBER THROUGH MAY.  THE ALBANY TOTAL THIS SEASON 
SO FAR IS 93.3 INCHES...PLACING THE 2002 TO 2003 SEASON IN 8TH POSITION.  
THE SNOWIEST SEASON WAS THE 1970-71 SEASON...WITH 112.5 INCHES OF SNOW.