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Boston gets hit by more snow storms, with 37 inches on the ground

That beats the 1996 record for the greatest snow depth in Boston. The Monday storm also beats the records set by the Blizzard of 1978, with two feet of snow burying parts of New England.

Boston also set a new 30-day snowfall record with 61.6 inches, beating the previous record from 1978, of 58.8 inches.

Several hundred flights have been cancelled, and transit systems are under strain. Boston’s transit system is the United States oldest, and it was shut down on Monday, and lay idle on Tuesday. Subways, trolleys and commuter rail trains were off. Bus services were operating in a limited fashion. “It’s awful. I’m done with it. It’s ridiculous,” said Priscilla Medina, a sandwich shop worker in Westborough, Massachusetts. The city is forecast to get up to two more feet of snow.

The storm is expected to disappear by Tuesday, by which time it is expected that New York will get between 6 to 12 inches and southern Maine about 8 inches. Charlie Baker, the Governor of Massachusetts declared Tuesday, as partial snow day, and told reporters that the situation was “pretty much unprecedented.” In the last month, the state has removed enough snow to fill a volume 90 times larger than Gillette Stadium.

The heavy winter is also stressing people out. “It is assaulting people,” said Barbara Green, a psychologist at the Center for Integrative Counseling and Wellness in Hingham. “Even strong, resilient, upbeat people are starting to feel a bit frayed emotionally. People’s normal coping skills and strategies erode,” she added. “Instead of eating a healthy diet, they eat cookies, maybe even drinking more.”

Two more snow storms are expected soon, with one set for Thursday which might also hit Boston. Also on the table is the coldest air of the season with wind chills 10 to 30 below zero from New York northward.

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