Worcester accumulated the most snowfall in America

WORCESTER, Mass. (WWLP) - Now that it's officially springtime, we can reflect on the rough winter in western Massachusetts, but it wasn't nearly as snowy as it was down the road in Worcester.

The 108 inches that fell on America's snow capital of Worcester was more than any American city with a population of more than 100,000. Springfield got only about 55 inches of snow.

The still stunned people of Worcester were cheerful in spite of their record snowfall “I don't like it, it's a lot of snow, I come in it's a big surprise,” said Walter Duarte of Worcester.

There's a bright side even to a record snowfall. Rick Contrucci of Worcester told 22News, it could have been much worse. The timing of the three major storms made it tolerable. “Luckily it wasn't in the middle of the week.”

“Just the parking, parking alone was the major hassle,” according to Peter Cote of Sturbridge. “There was no place to put the snow and people are parking all over the place.”

West of Worcester and East of Springfield the town of Monson also got a lot of snow. Monson's Public Works director John Morrell told 22News, he calculates his town received more than 83 inches of snow this past winter.