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It doesn’t even look that impressive but it’s snowing heavily.

It’s over me now and I can verify your observation.

The Weather Channel had someone in Amarillo TX and it looked like he was in the middle of a lake effect band. I would not want to be driving on I40 tonight.

Fulton’s reporting +SN. That is heading towards me.

Including this afternoon’s non lake effect snows I must be near 2 inches already.

Finally showing some heavier returns near Fulton.

Very nice parachutes that are accumulating quite efficiently. The polar (pun intended) opposite of the flakes last night.

It looks like the band is organizing on a wnw orientation. It’s snowing steadily here with good flake size.

Does anyone know what’s going on with the King City radar on the Canadian side? There has to be more activity coming off Georgian Bay than it’s showing. It’s been that way for a while.

You heard of the perfect storm, well this is the imperfect storm.

From Meteorologist Peter Hall on Facebook cebook

Looks like the beginning of our band offshore of Niagara County.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Binghamton NY 227 PM EST Tue Feb 16 2021 Northern Oneida-Onondaga-Madison-Southern Oneida- Including the cities of Boonville, Syracuse, Hamilton, Oneida, Rome, and Utica 227 PM EST Tue Feb 16 2021 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 6 inches. * WHERE...Oneida, Onondaga, and Madison counties. * WHEN...Until 10 AM EST Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous conditions could impact the evening and morning commutes. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The heaviest snowfall of 4 to 6 inches will fall in a narrow area in northern Onondaga, far northern Madison, and western Oneida counties. This includes portions of the New York Thruway, particularly near Syracuse.

I got 13 inches out of that 12/29 lake effect storm. That’s the one storm I outdid you guys. Since then I’ve had a decent snow cover for 7 straight weeks.

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict I get more snow off the lake tonight then I did last night (3 inches). Of course the liquid equivalent won’t be the same.

I measured only 3.1 inches of snow, sleet and ice which melted don to 0.65 inch. That’s a ratio of around 5:1. If the 0.65 inch was all snow at 10:1 it would have given 6.5 inches of snow. At 12:1 would have been close to 8 inches.

They’re from Rochester so they used the standard Rochester method of snow measurement.

The airport observation is reporting UP which is usually sleet. Could be a mix.

Penn Yan just went over to sleet.

That matches what I’m getting here. It started snowing hard about 10 and I’ve got about 2 inches now maybe a little more. If it would snow like this until even 5 we would have at least 6 inches but I’m afraid the taint is going to catch up eventually.

Midway airport in Chicago had two hours of 3 in/hr snow this evening and it’s still snowing heavily. The morning rush should be a mess.

The report from the airport there is alternating between sleet and snow.

I agree with you. In the Syracuse area we might mix for a while but the mix line is not racing north. I don’t understand all the negativity on this board but that has become the norm lately. It’s been snowing pretty good here for the last 45 minutes.

Light snow at Penn Yan.

1/4 mile visibility at Midway in +SN and 1/2 at ORD.