Lynne says: 78" ARGHHHHHHHHH!

We have been keeping busy here in Hanover, a mell of a hess!

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From the Hanover Evening Sun:

Hanover's final total for the storm that began on Monday and stretched late into Tuesday evening was 23.1 inches, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Aaron Tyburski.

It was the largest amount to fall in any of the reporting sites in York County, he said.

The weather service doesn't keep official records for many small locales including Hanover, Tyburski said, but does compile information that's phoned in from participants in its Cooperative Observer Program.

And the 23 inches reported locally by Hanover Water Plant, combined with this past weekend's snowfall to leave 51.7 inches on the ground this week, he said.

"That blows away everything from years past," Tyburski said. "I mean by leaps and bounds, not even close."

The previous snowfall record in Hanover - for an entire season - is 56.8 inches, which fell in the winter of 1995-96, and included the blizzard of Jan. 7 that year, he said.

"You almost beat that total just this week," he said.

And counting the snowfall of this past December, when mother nature dropped 23 inches in town, the year-to-date total in Hanover of just less than 78 inches is far and away the most the area has seen in one season, Tyburski said, at least since the early 1990s, when the Weather Service began keeping such records.