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Historic Christmas Lake Effect Blizzard
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
The guy I sub contract for was plowing back then and today while talking with him over the phone I asked if the conditions were like in 77. He told me the winds and lack of visibility was on par with or maybe worse then 77 but the overall impact of the storm won't nearly come close. He said back in 77 the storm took everyone by surprise for the most part which lead to so many stranded people in cars. -
Historic Christmas Lake Effect Blizzard
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I've pretty much struggled to see across my street for 12+ hours. If it stays this way until saturday night/sunday morning it will be compared to the blizzard of 1977 which was #1 by a pretty big margin -
Historic Christmas Lake Effect Blizzard
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I've snow plowed for almost 10 years now and this is the first time I'm completely unable to leave my house because of the conditions. Even in 2014 I managed to carefully make my way to each parking lot. I've never seen this low of visibility for this long of duration. I'm hoping for the band to push north a bit more for a little while so I can get a small window to try to get to a few places before the snow gets to out of control. -
Historic Christmas Lake Effect Blizzard
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I haven't been able to see across the street for awhile now but I still had someone call me just now asking why I haven't plowed her drive way yet. Some people............ airport now showing 16.8 -
Historic Christmas Lake Effect Blizzard
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I live a few miles south of the airport and can confirm 0 visibility. I tried driving 1 block to my grandmas to plow her driveway and i drove off the street several times going only a few mph -
Historic Christmas Lake Effect Blizzard
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Not looking forward to this storm as someone who does snow plowing. To anyone chasing this event please be prepared with full tanks of fuel, shovel, and a snatch strap or recovery rope -
Upstate/Eastern New York-Into Winter!
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
nov 2014? -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Well i have video of driving in white conditions from lake effect snow from last year mid may, not the normal but my grandma always said never plant before memorial day weekend which I still go by -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I've learned that winter still has its share of surprises until we reach memorial day, for buffalo at least lol -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Well I always looked at global warming through this lens of "uh guys we are literally changing the earths atompshere with compounds that we can scientifically show their effect". Take humans out of the equation and it makes more sense. I just really hate how the science tends to get lost behind the politics with thing like global warming. We honestly can't look at just temp trends because of the tiny sample size so we have to look at other data try and separate the variance as much as possible -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
in general people underestimate variance and one of the best things studying no limit holdem was teach me just how much variance you will experience and try to pick out flaws in your strategy vs the variance in outcomes. The sample size we see with winter events is pretty low which makes it insanely hard to try and separate any patterns -
Major LES event-December 24-27
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
the amount of bi-polar here is truly mind boggling when it comes to snow -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I don't really remember the last time it was this late into October and all the yards I cut are so dry it resembles more like august. Normally I'd be fighting the weather to get everyone cut for the week but some places I haven't cut since September since we just haven't had the rain+the total sunlight per day is shrinking fast. -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I got a slight drizzle in south cheektowaga with all the action staying to the west -
I have had the same thing happen to me. Since I cant sleep tonight I decided to bring some old towels with me tomorrow just so i have something to wipe my face with. Back on Tuesday I had this 3 acre lot that only gets cut every 4-6 weeks and had the wind blowing all the dirt/clippings right in my face going the one direction which made for a unbearable few hours.
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I think the worst thing for me is sweat running down into my eyes, today my hat was useless after the first hour lol.
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Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
wow that's a really interesting/crazy -
Doesn't sound that fun but it kind of goes with the whole living in the desert thing they have going on
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I do landscaping and lawn care and today was brutal. I took breaks during the day so I stayed hydrated and just a little while ago i went to throw my stuff in the wash and noticed my jeans had massive salt stains on them just from working 8am to 3:45. I don't really complain about the heat since are winters can last awhile but I'm sick of this heat and need a break.
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wouldn't surprise me if it beats 81 after this next heat wave
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with upwelling it makes it very difficult to reach those high of temps, At Rochester it's 57 right now(looking at NOAA)
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Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Is it possible to start a new thread just for Corvid-19 for us? -
Upstate/Eastern New York
Vicarious replied to BuffaloWeather's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
when i saw pictures of the market it started in my first thought was "yea no shit i think i might get something just looking at a picture" -
So she feels the need to call out the NWS after they got 13 inches of snow with high winds? The NWS has to take into account the potential for dangerous weather using blizzard warnings but not over use it so when we do get one people don't just write it off. Either way it's a huge task and responsibility. I also remember NWS getting tons of shit after that huge pile up on the 90 which killed at least one person a few years ago.