lakeeffectkid383

I hope it goes to 50 degrees and stays that way for the rest of winter. Was a great 10 day stretch, besides that nothing but awful. Spring can’t come soon enough.

I can’t because there is a state of emergency and a travel ban all around me. If I’m on the road I will be ticketed. My work in Hamburg closed early and now I’m stuck at home in sunshine in West Seneca with a state of emergency all around me with sunshine here. This is unreal.

Biggest but in my lifetime in West Seneca. Just went out and measured 5.1” total snowfall for the event. Literally not a single flake falling and sun is shining through the clouds. 5 miles away. Over a foot, snowing 3” an hour, total blizzard conditions. It is literally a beautiful day outside here. It’s absolutely unreal.

https://imgur.com/gallery/MU3MNOu

Sun peaking through light snow in West Seneca. No joke

At least you guys got a foot yesterday. Eyeballing about 6” or so here.

I Hate west Seneca with a passion

Band is splitting apart with the main band settling over Hamburg and the Boston Hills and a secondary weaker band over the northtowns again and the “transition zone” is finding a way to get screwed yet again. This is unbelievable.

Idk I think Ayuud I’d right. That band looks like it’s gonna fall off the lake and a new one will likely form just to our south.

Yep right on schedule! Through the transition zone to settle into the deeper Southtowns. Few more years and I’m out of West Seneca and never looking back! And dont feel bad Dave, Ive only got 2 inches and I’m 8 miles away from the areas that got 20”+ .

Unreal. 2” here. Congrats though you northtowners diserved a good event and this is finally it for you guys!

Woke up and found nothing new additional on the ground and the band over Niagara Falls. Lmfao what a joke. No one called for the band to still be this far north at this time. No meteorologist, no model. I knew yesterday when I looked back and saw how far upstream winds were still SW to SSW that this thing was gonna be north and for quite a while. What a joke here in the Southtowns. When that band finally does drop south it’s gonna fly right through South Buffalo, Lackawanna, West Seneca and settle over Hamburg and OP just like that map from channel 7 somebody posted that the blue minimum right over us as usual. Erg this sucks. I’m trying not to complain because I know there’s some on here who are having a lot worse of a season than I, but it’s frustrating when it seems like a big one is near and we have 2” for the event while 8 miles to my north is at about 14-16” and the band shows no signs of dropping south anytime soon. Those maps the NWS put out yesterday of 24-30”+ right over my head really got me going now too because I’ll make a bet right now that South Buffalo and West Seneca see less than 8” total for the event and I’ll go ahead and say Amherst jackpots for northtowns with 25” and Hamburg jackpots to our south with 28” once the band finally does shift south and locks in. So frustrating but I guess that’s lake effect... okay end rant.

I’m off to bed. Hopefully this changes the fortune for the “transition zone”. Good luck all!

I might have to cause whenever I’m watching radar I keep watching N,S,E, and W of me lighting up lol we’ll I get nice light colored returns or a yellow return that last all of 1 frame. Anyone know why this area is always such a snow hole during events and why the “transition zone” is the way it is?

Band died down here. About 2” down from that front in about 40 minutes.

Heaviest snow of the season here by far, at least that I’ve been awake for haha. Complete total whiteout. Has to be near 3”/hr as literally can not see the house across the street. We shall see how long it last.

Based on that radar loop looks like this will be a good set up for Tonawanda to Cheektowaga out to Clarence almost like last week.

I meant on BUF radar but I stand corrected.

Looks more like a front to me... there’s no returns behind it.

72” over my head. Stop it now.

I’m not sure, check out the Gaylord Michigan Radar. I would post but it’s over the upload size limit.

Looking back over the Western Great Lakes the flow is still SW to SSW all the way back to upper Michigan so looks like it may be quite a while before winds realign sending a more consolidated band back into the northtowns to airport to Cheektowaga corridor.

Those winds are really going SSW a lot more than I had anticipated. Just surprised to see how far north the snow is even if it is disorganized. Guess the NAM was right about that when it first showed that a couple days ago.

That’s actually scary!!

New NWS map. If this verifies this will be one of the premier lake effect events in BUF history. Widespread 2’+ totals. From northtowns to Southtowns and everywhere in between with -30 windchills and 45 mph winds this will be the ‘85 repeat we’ve all been waiting for!!!