( CNN ) The next time the people of Capracotta , Italy , hear the folks in Boston complain about a snow season of more than 100 inches , they 'll be like : `` That 's nice . We 've been known to get that much in one day . '' In 18 hours , actually . It 's not an official record yet , but it looks like the Italian village got 100.8 inches ( 256 centimeters ) on Thursday , setting the all-time mark for most snow in 24 hours . Pescocostanzo , about 21 miles ( 34.6 kilometers ) away , only got 94.5 inches ( 240 cm ) . That 's more than Boston got in January and February combined , but just short of the 105.7 inches the city totaled so far for the whole season . One of the photos posted on MeteoWeb , the Italian weather website that reported the immense snowfall , showed a resident standing on top of the accumulation shaking hands with a neighbor . She is in a second-story window . The town , which has about 1,000 residents and sits at an altitude of 4,662 feet ( 1,421 meters ) , is prone to heavy one-day snowfalls , MeteoWeb reported . You might conclude it 's in the Italian Alps given all that snow , but that 's not the case . It 's about a three-hour drive east of Rome , roughly halfway down the Italian Peninsula , not far from the Adriatic Sea . But it is in the mountains and is vulnerable to weather coming from the northeast . The World Meteorological Organization will confirm whether the snowfall actually surpassed the 24-hour snowfall record -- 75.8 inches -- from Silver Lake , Colorado , set in 1921 . MeteoWeb reported that the snow fell in 18 hours and that in unpopulated areas at higher altitudes , it is likely accumulations were much more significant . CNN meteorologists Dave Hennen and Taylor Ward contributed to this report .
An Italian weather website says the snow measured 24 inches . The world record for 24 hours of snow is 24 inches , set in buffalo in 1921 .