Mass. communities land among top 10 biggest snow totals nationwide

A powerful weekend storm blanketed the Northeast and beyond, leaving several feet of snow in its trail.

Surprisingly, the highest total recorded by the National Weather Service didn't come from the Northeast. Bonito Lake, New Mexico, claimed the top spot with a massive 31 inches of accumulation.

Meanwhile, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Crested Butte, Colorado, saw significant totals at 23 inches.

Sterling and Princeton, both in Massachusetts, tied for 4th place for highest snow totals, each recording 22.2 inches.

Other Massachusetts communities on the list were Hopkinton and East Spencer, both with 22 inches recorded as of Monday around noon.

New York regions in Fairview, Haines Falls, Windham, West Shokan and Siegel were close behind at a recorded 22 inches.

While the Northeast saw the most widespread heavy snow, Bonito Lake, New Mexico, reported the highest total at 31 inches.

The storm also brought heavy accumulation to the South and Mid-Atlantic:

• Grove, West Virginia: 13 inches

• Little Rock, Arkansas: 11 inches (broke a previously reported daily record for snowfall of 4 inches in 1899, according to Fox Weather )

• Clarendon, Texas: 10.2 inches

• Bel Air, Maryland: 10.5 inches

• Wares Crossroads, Virginia: 9.7 inches

• Wheeler, Texas: 9.8 inches

Beyond the snow, the storm resulted in nearly 800,000 customers without power across Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Kentucky, as of 11:30 a.m. on Monday according to PowerOutage.com .

Here are the top 10 locations that received the most snow during the storm overall:

1. Bonito Lake, New Mexico: 31 inches

2. Jennerstown, Pennsylvania: 24.7 inches

3. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: 23 inches

4. Sterling, Massachusetts: 22.2 inches

5. Princeton, Massachusetts: 22.2 inches

6. Haines Falls, New York: 22 inches

7. Windham, New York: 22 inches

8. West Shokan, New York: 22 inches

9. Hopkinton, Massachusetts: 22 inches

10. East Spencer, Massachusetts: 22 inches

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