108.6 inches tops the 1995-1996 record Boston is hoping this is one record that lasts at least another 20 years. As of 7 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, the latest blanket of fresh snow in Beantown was enough to make it the snowiest, and probably most complained-about, season the city has felt since records were first kept back in 1872, according to the National Weather Service. The total snowfall has reached 108.6 inches, edging out the 107.6 inches from the brutal 1995-1996 stretch. Bostonians can thank February’s record-setting 64.9 inches, which obliterated the prior monthly peak of 43.3 inches in January 2005. Fire up the duckboats, it’s party time — right, Mr. Mayor? And, of course, this from some smart guy on the West Coast: Shawn Langlois