Buffalo Bumble

Still ripping here. 4” of fresh fluff in the last 90 minutes.

Pounding here. About 2”/hour rate. Just walked about 1/2 mile north to Main St (corner of Burroughs) and probably closer to 3”/hour there. FUN!!!!!

Nice! Moist cyclonic flow with air temps in the low 20’s and lake temps in the 40’s is always a winning combo! Not sure where the official forecast ended up, but seems like these relatively early season events usually overproduce.

Interesting radar depiction. Almost has the look of a meso low over the lake.

Merry Christmas!! 5” of paste here. Looks amazing clinging to the tree branches. I think the GFS did a good job with this storm. Seems like we tracked it forever...but GFS consistently showed snow in WNY as a storm road up the cold front with rain issues from ROC east. Pretty impressive for 7-day lead time.

Flipped to snow here about 10 minutes ago.

All rain here, bit of sleet mixing in at times.

Me too! Surprised just 1-2” from synoptic in BUF area with the expected track. Maybe they’re thinking the changeover on the NIA Frontier happens after main area of precipitation is gone??

I lived in South Cheektowaga for that one. Only time in my life I’ve legitimately been “snowed in”. 5+ feet in the driveway and side street for over 4 days. I lived in the CNY bullseye zone for the blizzard of 93 (Weedsport) and incredible as that storm was we were driving around the next day.

Thanks man. You guys have a solid squad this year too.

Absolutely!!!!

Bills about to win the AFC East!! Finally!!! The interval on this happening is about the same as a SW flow lake effect snow event off L Erie...

As much as I would love the GFS to verify (for WNY interests) the Canadian seems more realistic. Lots of rain followed by an inch or so of snow after the front barrels through. Then some lake effect on mainly westerly winds as the storm heads through Quebec. But a long way to go to figure out details! Definitely nice to have something to track around Christmas though for a change

Snow has picked up noticeably here in the last 30 minutes. Sucks to miss the heavy stuff here in WNY but still a solid winter night here.

Alex, I’ll take weather tragedies for $1,000. Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston. What are cities that will have more snow than Buffalo by the 2020 winter solstice? Correct!

Same here!

Yeah, awesome snowy morning here. Enjoying it while it lasts!

73 at BUF. Record shattered.

Jealous...Jump in Mirror Lake, just to say you did in November

Agree. Looks like if we flip cooler later this month it’s still only close to normal. Damage will have been done.

Gotcha, lock it in. Anyone else have much foliage left? Still over 50% leaf-on in my neighborhood with some nice colors holding strong. We’ve only had one freeze so far.

Is the streak 60’s or 65+? BUF is at 61 right now, not sure if we hit 65 earlier. Strong SW breeze is keeping it a bit cooler. Probably same deal tomorrow.

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time we were about to enter the coldest/snowiest early November stretch of weather I can recall. 1-2 weeks of snow cover at BUF, some days averaging 20 below normal. This year, we bask in near summer warmth and sun. Payback for the miserable weather in April and first part of May this year I guess.

Still no rain here other than a brief shower. This would have been torturous in winter. 6”+ just south with dense overcast and a flurry IMBY.

Will it really decimate our winters though? I mean, the sun will still leave the Arctic for 6 months and the ice will reform through the winter. How much difference will it make down here at lower latitudes if the temps are -20 on average around the arctic circle versus -30? I know this is oversimplifying things and no doubt temps are warming. Maybe it’s more a question of how warm can we really get in winter months when farther northern latitudes will always be super cold thanks to no sun. To counter my own thoughts, perhaps the normal seasonal snow pack pushes north year after year, say from near Ottawa now (they always seem to retain a pack when we torch and green in winter!) to insert name of Canadian town here. In which case we end up with winter climo of Columbus, OH in 25 years. So yeah, decimated would be a good choice of words in that scenario.