I call total BS when I find this and that statement is shown to be a convenient mis-characterization by cherry-picking a date range and ignoring statistics on similar years.
http://www.sahalie.org/documents/History/Snow.pdf
(scroll down for Snoqualmie Pass snow historical, which shows there are a NUMBER of years in the historical record with low total snowfalls within 10% of that cited).
More here (older AND lower).
IOW,
Boston has had >60 in in the last month, more storms are projected this week. Weather happens.