Buffalo Bumble

The last 48 or so hours of weather really does strike home the overall harshness of our climate. Spring is just so damn slow to materialize in these parts. Here we are approaching 2 months to the summer solstice and we've endured a battering ram of cold rain, snow squalls, and gusty winds going on 2 days. Maybe having my daughter studying abroad in the Netherlands, at a much more northern latitude at that, reporting all sorts of spring wonders (sun, frequent temps in the 60's to 70, full green-up) for the last 3 weeks has soured my view on our climate. Our positioning in the global wave train coming out of northern hemisphere winter just...hurts. It's like the frozen water of James Bay is a giant middle finger pointed right at us. We have to endure weeks and weeks of damp, gray, disgusting discharge from the Canadian prairies as the seasons slowly change...All while plebians in D.C. just an hour plane ride to the south get high on the scent of cherry blossoms, and Euro's in Amsterdam several tics of latitude to our north get high on...other stuff. Ok, rant over...

Snow never really stopped here all day. Didn't accumulate during the day, but still impressive (depressing?) to have snow in the air for the full 13 or so hours of daylight. Still snowing moderately and starting to accumulate again, with roads fully covered.

Eyeballing 2 inches here with steady snow falling.

Almost ashamed to (happily) report 1” here that melted by 10 am and allowed me to hit golf balls under a bright blue sky. So ready for spring. Congrats to all who got a nice shot of snow.

Blizzarding here

Nicely done! Great mix of intense winds, crashing waves, and heavy snow.

Congrats!! That's a memorable event for sure. Did the band make it down to the airport? Wondering if the Cuse just passed BUF in the seasonal snowfall totals...

Blowing harder here than it has all day. BUF gusting over 60 mph last ob.

Fixed.

No major damage to report so far here in Amherst/Snyder. Good trends showing up for next weekend. I'll take a wiff wide right at this point over another cutter and high winds. Hopefully the trends hold and we get something to track this week.

About to head home from Akron. 8-10” powder during the day, 3’ drifts in front of my truck in parking lot. And still ripping.

Still 2-3”/hr here. in Alden. Freaking incredible.

Full on blizzard in Alden. 2-3”/ hr rate easy right now.

I’m in Alden for work this afternoon and marginal blizzard conditions here for the last few hours. Huge dendrites falling with vis down near 0 in wind gusts. Awesome out.

Flipped to snow here. Our daily H2O bonanza has now come full circle. Heavy snow to sleet to freezing rain to rain...now a final encore of some snow.

12z op run of Euro looks quite interesting next weekend for most if not all of us. Hopefully that system trends in a good direction over the next few days.

What a furnace outside! It’s like the polar vortex ripped a hole in the atmosphere over our head and when it retreated it was replaced by a bubble of air from the Gulf coast. Upper 50’s IMBY, but feels SO much warmer in the sun. The remaining snow is meting in hyper speed.

Yeah, we roasted here in WNY. I drove home from NYC this morning and the thermometer kept climbing the whole way. Even had the windows down when the blowtorch really kicked in west of the Genny valley. Meanwhile, I think northeaster NY up around Plattsburgh is in the teens today with some snow.

Anyone have final snow totals from last week? Sorry if I missed it here, not seeing anything on NWS website.

Op yes, EPS = no.

Par for the course man. No single spot is ever guaranteed big accumulations when it comes to lake effect snow. Some seasons will favor w/wsw flows, others will be w/wnw. Yet others will spread the wealth. You’re in a great spot over the long term average to get big events. And like you said, not like it’s been a total shutout. 2’ OTG is still big time!

I’ll second that, great stuff

Congrats!! Love it when a chase works out. And being in a band like you’ve been in is just a phenomenal experience.

Fixed it for you...If you're not in it now, you must be close enough to smell it...