BuffaloWeather

We don't have much longer before the lake freezes so this is our last hurrah. Take lots of videos and pictures! Will be following. Disappointing event so far here.

Twin bands over Lake Erie likely to persist all night...but the band along the south shore expected to be the dominant feature. This will extend across immediate southern sub of Buffalo to Lancaster and northeast to Batavia and Monroe county. In fact...this band is feeding the multiple banded lake snow northeast of Lake Ontario that is impacting the Thousand Island Region. The southern lake Erie band will become better organized overnight. While a cap of 6kft will somewhat limit the snowfall rates...once better organized...we should still see rates of an inch an hour from this feature into the initial daylight hours of Saturday. Strong wind fields will push the lake plume into Genesee and Wyoming counties overnight tonight into Saturday, with heavier snow still looking to extend as far east as Corfu, Attica and Batavia. The snow band will begin to diminish late Saturday afternoon, but likely will not completely end until the boundary layer winds become more disorganized and drier air moves in later Saturday evening. In general few changes were made to going snow amount forecast for band of Lake Erie. Over a foot looks likely in many areas, but totals more toward a foot and a half will only be where band becomes nearly stationary overnight. Strong and gusty winds of 15 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph at times will result in considerable blowing and drifting snow and will make the snow hard to measure at times. The blowing and drifting and low visibility will be big issue with this lake event compared to the one that Buffalo Metro experienced the day after Christmas. Near whiteout conditions are expected at times. This will be big factor in potential hazardous travel conditions.

Still getting heavy snow here. Has to be a few inches down.

I still have some hope we can get a good band going, until Lake Michigan shuts down we have hope. The dry air is going to work in west to east.

Too late for this year. We did have 2 good ones, one dropped 3' in Springville with really high rates. I got 30" in 2 days here around Christmas.

RGEM looks better for metro

It's the new climo. Eastern snow storms. Eastern NY average snowfall going up. We're all going down. We rely a lot on cold air for our yearly averages. With global warming we have to expect lower yearly snowfall totals.

New WRF runs

Still getting heavy snow here, but that is a sad looking band. I'm going to take a shower and maybe a nap and see what it looks like a little later. Not worth chasing.

Michigan still going strong, have a long way to go

Getting some bigger flakes now

The primary band is going to be the southern one.

Devin says 3-4” per hour in Amherst. Highest rates of the year. Getting some graupel mixed in here. Atmosphere is charged.

2” per here

Can’t lose if you never sell.

That southern band going to become primary? Such a thin band.

Heavy snow here

All kinds of issues. Extreme now casting event. Only bright spot as Lake Michigan is still going very strong.

We need to consolidate those 2 bands

Told you guys though. High winds with lake effect almost always leads to disappointment

Devin says 2” per in Blasdell

Double band merging into one?!? At the gym and heavy snow here.

Don’t care who gets hit. I want one solid band with 3-4” per hour rates and punch it after the gym. Let’s gooo

Snow has started here