BuffaloWeather

The county executive is taking a ton of heat on this right now. I have no idea. You should have seen how many cars were out yesterday during the day in complete whiteout conditions. We're more prepared than the city of Buffalo is for this. When the storm hits the city its far more impactful than the southtowns. If you call 911 right now, no one is coming out they shut it all down until the conditions improve.

Travel ban at 9:30 am was a little too late. Should have been called earlier. People had to go to work and got stuck.

Has me getting 36-48”, im betting the under

Friend in grand island said 15-20” today

From buf nws

Sisters house in Cheektowaga.

BREAKING: The Buffalo Niagara International Airport will be closed until 11am MONDAY.

Totals so far, hard to say but going with 9.5" here after measuring in a number of spots. Very difficult with the wind. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=BUF

Before Erie freezes we get very similar totals to watertown

I agree with this. But the lake has stopped fully freezing over the last few years. What we see is the up and down pattern where we will get arctic air for a few days and then it warms up quick which slows down the freezing process. We are going to see that this weekend with temps in the 50s which will allow more opportunity for LES events further into the winter season. There is not enough data as far as I can tell to prove that hypothesis. For instance, Buffalo had a major LES event in February last year, which would rarely occur in a normal winter due to it being frozen by then historically speaking. Buffalo is getting LES events well into February that otherwise rarely occurred if looking at historical data. Are they happening enough to make it a pattern not a coincidence, I'm not sure about that yet. A few events from last year in February. https://www.weather.gov/buf/lesEventArchive?season=2020-2021&event=F https://www.weather.gov/buf/lesEventArchive?season=2020-2021&event=I

...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT BUFFALO NY... A RECORD RAINFALL OF 1.98 WAS SET AT BUFFALO NY YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 1.73 SET IN 1878. ...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM SNOWFALL SET AT BUFFALO NY... A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 22.3 WAS SET AT BUFFALO NY YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 12.6 SET IN 1976.