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50 minutes ago, tim123 said:

Modiki el Nino. It's good type of Nino for east

While there is model support for El Nino, it's too early to determine whether it would be Modoki or an eastern Pacific anomaly: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/june-2018-enso-update-el-niño-watch

3 hours ago, MAIDEsNow said:

Will lurk this sub-forum more in upcoming years, got a property with Cabin on the Erie PA / Chautauqua county NY line at 1765' elevation. Forecast for this spot is much more in line with that put out by BUF for Chautauqua Ridge area. Put up sale pending sign yesterday. Our forever home will be built here in a few years. Is 1.5 miles west of Peak N Peek & 1 mile north of the Wilderness Lodge resort. Incredible snow depth out there yesterday afternoon 14 days into March, considering snow was pretty much completely melted off at the end of February.

Sale Pending 

 

 

 Beautiful. What kind of acreage?

4 hours ago, rochesterdave said:

Erie county does get vastly different weather depending on location and elevation. I think it’s the only county that gets split for NWS alert packages. I was just thinking of how I’d like to live in the Boston Hills. I’m an MRI tech, so getting a job simply requires me being within 30 mins of a medical center. I like rural, woodsy living. 

Bertrand Chaffee Hospital is a full service medical center in Springfield! About 1400 feet above sea level, and within about five miles there are 2000 ft hilltops, plenty rural and woodsy.

2 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

The strikes between cnj-nyc is snow..

Oh ok - I was looking at a lightning map earlier and it was firing off near Atlantic City where it was definitely rain.

36 minutes ago, CNY_WX said:

The snowstorm is over, the sun is breaking through, lol. 

That band that has been moving through Western NY during the morning really crapped out fast. By the time it passes through Buffalo in the next half hour, it isn't likely to be more than a short period of wind gusts. I don't have my hopes up for much, but even that minor burst of snow seems to have been too much to hope for.

14 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

A Lot of lightning in nj..Thunder sleet reported in AC..

Nice convection, but I always feel like thunder during frozen p-type that isn't snow is a bit of a cheat, because graupel, sleet, and hail just generate so much more frictional charge than dendrites. I mean, you have to have pretty intense convection for actual thundersnow in a synoptic storm, which is awesome and rare. LES thundersnow is cool, but I remember hearing thundersnow when I lived in Boston during the March 1993 coastal blizzard, and that made a huge impression on me. I think we can all agree that people who freak out about thunder during graupel or sleet events are rank amateurs.

3 hours ago, tim123 said:

It was a blizzard. Nws in buffalo hates predicting or forecasting snow for rochester. Been that way for 30 years

NWS in Buffalo is very averse to blizzard warnings anywhere in its zones. But then again, nearly every location in WNY would verify a blizzard at least once a season and probably many more times than that for most.

On the other extreme, BOX hands out blizzard warnings like the pope hands out wafers. I’ll take the actual blizzard conditions without the headline over fake news blizzards.

Thunder snow up here in NE Buffalo!

Incredible experience. We were at Cedar Hill Park north of downtown Nashville, and some scattered cu broke up about 45 minutes before totality, giving us a clear view. 

52 minutes ago, cbmclean said:

I know, but its human nature that the grass is always greener somewhere else?  (or in our case the snow is always deeper).

By the way, what do they consider "decent" up there in terms of amount and frequency?

We have had probably 20" this winter, about half of which came in one storm. The rest has fallen in small increments, while areas to the south have gotten huge amounts. By contrast, 25 miles south of here, they're over 100 inches with half the winter still to go.

Part of it is geography amd part of it is bad luck. Point is exactly what you said, the snow is always deeper on the other side.

9 hours ago, cbmclean said:

Sometimes I fantasize about living in the snowbelts around the great lakes.  The snow comes with the wind.

I moved from Tennessee to Buffalo about four years ago, and I can tell you that I have seen the snow clouds for epic multi-foot storms, including the Nov 2014 70" storm, just 3-5 miles south and never come any closer. I have to live where I live for work, and in my part of the area we do get some decent snow from time to time, but even up in the Great Lakes you would be amazed at how often you can find yourself in the screwzone.