1000 inches of snow and single-digit temps for New England would be AWESOME! (I would wish for below-zero temps, but those temps wouldn’t be practical for heavy snow...)
no one alive, or even those recently before us, have had to go through a month as cold and snowy as this one.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/the-most-extreme-winter-month-ever-observed-in-new-england/ Which was after the NOAA, per usually, forecast warmer than average temps for NE:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/winter-outlook-2014-2015
But the Almanac is worse.