BuffaloWeather

Makes sense but those maps are pretty terrible as quite a few counties had above average snowfall across WNY.

Where do you get these maps from? Buffalo had a top 5 snowfall year and according to your map we didn't. I had 185" here with annual around 120" and it shows me 50% of normal last winter.

We’ve discussed on our discord about the urban heating effect at Buffalo. Check out some of the overnight lows in summer this year and see if you see anything fishy. Love this kind of data

This data is flawed. 5 yrs isn’t nearly enough data to justify a conclusion. It’s clearly colder along lakeshore than at airport.

A degree is a massive difference in that timeframe

When was the last day 2 10% hatched tornado probs in michigan/ohio/indiana?

Should be good to go for chasing Wednesday. Was thinking of driving to around Toledo and awaiting rogue cells that form ahead of cf. Can go north or south based on what forms. Would anyone pick a different starting location?

Any chance this rolls over into weds?

Why do people get so close?

I think I might be able to chase Weds if anyone here wants to meet up.

Will this extend into Indiana and Ohio on Wednesday? Was thinking of taking a PTO day and heading out chasing if it does.

Many of these recording stations were different back then. Buffalos was right on the lakeshore before 1940 and much cooler than the location it is now (airport) Rochester and Syracuse changed locations too. Not sure about Erie. Any data pre 1940 needs to be tossed at least for Buffalo, not sure when ROC and SYR moved.

I guess it’s how you judge a severe winter. This winter had 2 severe storms which imo have a bigger impact then Snow cover. Not to mention loss of life. 6” on the ground all winter with temps in the 20s isn’t “severe” by any stretch. Imo this is a rather dumb rating system. The Buffalo Christmas blizzard will likely go down as worst winter weather. Conditions east of the Rockies ever…39 straight hours of blizzard conditions with single digit temps. Wind gusts of 79 mph and 50”+ of snow. Drifts were 20’+. The only place you see that type of weather is in the mountains.

51 people died in Buffalo this winter due to the storms and its rated as moderate. 17 were literally found frozen to death outside during the Christmas Blizzard.

lots in discord

Finally some active weather moving into New York! Everyone here went to discord. If anyone would like an invite in the Ontario/New York corridor send me a PM for invite link. We have a really active ontario crew in our channel now, as our weather is pretty similar to theirs. We're up to 77 members that joined.

Amazing write up by buf nws https://www.weather.gov/buf/lesEventArchive?season=2022-2023&event=D

3.8, I was on way back from bathroom and almost fell. The shaking was intense I thought it was a sonic boom or something.

Buffalo police department released videos of rescues during the blizzard, insane...

check pms.

We should have some chances the next few weeks with the upcoming pattern. If anyone wants to join discord and from great lakes/upstate NY pm me or post here for invite.

Nice little surprise event here today. 4.1" which brings me over 160" on the year. Next storm in middle of week looks a little messy.

This season has been nuts. 3 big LES storms and then after that the little synoptic events have been 1-3" type stuff. I'm almost at 160" on the year. Big storms are my thing so I live in a good location for it.