Just after 7 Sunday evening, with 2.9 more inches of fresh snow blanketing Boston, the National Weather Service in Taunton announced that the city notched its snowiest winter since records started being kept in 1872.

The official total at Logan International Airport reached 108.6 inches — one inch more than the previous record, which was set in the 1995-1996 winter, according to the weather service.

The snow in Boston this winter came all at once, in a blitz from late January through February. The previous record holder, the 1995-96 season, saw its snow spread out throughout the winter.

Comparing the two seasons, we see that 1995-96 actually had a higher seasonal snowfall on 86 of the 122 days from Nov. 13 through March 15. In the aftermath of the “Blizzard of 1996″ on Jan. 7 and 8 and a small storm immediately following it, the 1995-96 season had a seemingly insurmountable 60-inch lead on the 2014-15 season. That lead was erased when 64.4 inches fell in a two-week period between Jan. 24 and Feb. 9 of this year. The 2014-15 season never gave up the seasonal snowfall lead after that point.