RECORD REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1245 AM EST SAT JAN 4 2002

...TWO PRECIPITATION RECORDS SET AT BINGHAMTON...

17.3 INCHES OF SNOW FELL AT THE BINGHAMTON REGIONAL AIRPORT 
YESTERDAY...JANUARY 3, 2002.  THIS SURPASSES THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 
7.8 INCHES...SET IN 1996.  THIS ALSO MAKES YESTERDAY THE SECOND 
SNOWIEST JANUARY DAY ON RECORD...JUST OVER AN INCH LESS THE SNOWIEST 
JANUARY DAY ON RECORD...JANUARY 13, 1964...WHEN 18.4 INCHES OF SNOW 
WAS REPORTED.  

0.82 INCHES OF LIQUID PRECIPITATION FELL AT BINGHAMTON REGIONAL 
AIRPORT...SETTING A RECORD FOR THE DAY AS WELL.  THE OLD RECORD WAS 
0.72 INCHES...SET IN 1960.