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0645 PM SNOW 5 SSE PAINESVILLE 41.67N 81.21W 12/01/2020 E22.5 INCH LAKE OH PUBLIC

Another poster from Ohio

Poster from Ohio has 17" and they lost power this morning. They're staying in a hotel due to the weight of the snow causing them to lose power. Lake effect is wetter than synoptic in early season events. It's not always high QPF until Jan/Feb.

Did you see that lake snow event on the GFS? Would be 3-4' for Buffalo. It's been far too long since a good LES band. I think last year we had 1 good event? At 2" on the day here on the dot.

Location Amount Time/Date Lat/Lon ...Niagara... 1 ENE Lockport 3.2 in 0400 PM 12/01 43.18N/78.68W 4 NW North Tonawanda 1.0 in 0345 PM 12/01 43.08N/78.92W ...Cattaraugus... Perrysburg 4.0 in 0355 PM 12/01 42.46N/79.00W Ellicottville 2.0 in 0435 PM 12/01 42.27N/78.67W &&

That GFS was so many I can't even post.

Buffalo finished November with an average temp of 46.5. Tied for 6th on the top 10 warmest November list. AVERAGE MONTHLY: 46.5 DPTR FM NORMAL: 5.8 Jan: 9th warmest March: 7th warmest July: warmest on record August: 5th warmest November: 6th warmest

That band near Cleveland has been strong all day. Totals of a foot as of noon. They may approach 2 feet.

1.4" total so far here, rates are picking up.

I’ll be hiking dec 18-20, can’t lose.

Snow reports .5" here https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=BUF

411 hospitalizations in Erie county now. We're almost double the last waves hospitalizations. Any website to see if this is putting strain on hospital systems yet? Flu season is in full swing as well.

https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/coronavirus/coronavirus-could-have-been-in-us-as-early-as-mid-december-2019-cdc-study-says?fbclid=IwAR37GrH3l572GD069hqDIl4apgbXIQGfSKFS28E_CepnYbedpfs6d1KJBCU

CFS outlook for December

Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with them. I think at end of month we are around average temps.

CPC released their December outlook

The winds in the high peaks are insane. Also found this researching high winds up there. As temperatures dropped across the Northeast from the blast of a polar vortex, the wind chill at Whiteface, near Lake Placid, made it feel like a body- and mind-numbing minus 114 degrees late Saturday and into Sunday. Central Park could only muster a minus 1 degree. Can you imagine hiking up there that day?? You would literally just die lol https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/upstate-ny-mountain-hits-110-degrees-wind-chill-summit-article-1.2531580

The weekend storm doesn't even matter. It's almost all rain, airmass blows.

KBUF is reporting 1.9" so far today.

I would hope so. 3 weeks away from diurnal minimum.

Some good news for Erie County small business $19 million flowing to small businesses from Covid-19 relief program https://buffalonews.com/news/local/19-million-flowing-to-small-businesses-from-covid-19-relief-program/article_2c03740e-332e-11eb-b499-77ddd5d018aa.html

Woke up to winter!

Some New York state and Erie county data.

Some New York state and Erie county data.

That's only from Feb-Sep. If you include Oct/Nov what are we looking at 80-100 million infections?