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1 minute ago, wolfie09 said:

This looks fun next week lol

 

Looks like Wisconsin and Michigan get buried and a mess for us. 

Temperatures in the mid 40s but dew points below freezing will minimize melting today. Aiding the melt is a fairly strong wind to disperse that layer of cold air just above the snow. Also adding to snow melt is the ever increasing strength of insolation. Tomorrow is going to be a disaster for our snowpack with rain and higher dew points and temperatures. 

2 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

Geesh, the Lake Plains are incredible at how quickly they warm up.

It’s like a quasi Chinook wind. 

Just had a burst of heavy snow here but the band appears to be racing south now. 

7 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

Nice. Overcast building and a slight breeze picking up here. I can barely contain myself.

Heavy snow at Fulton now. Not too far from you. 

Up to borderline moderate snow here. The ground is finally getting covered. 

6 minutes ago, Syrmax said:

Snowing here now. It's not outrageous to think that we could jackpot another 0.8" with this band.

Hey an inch a day would be 30 inches a month. We could get to 100 inches in a season that way. 

5 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

Entering Saharashreddercuse to die.

 

Where lake effect goes to die. -SN here now. 

18 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

After an ugly Thursday, Friday could prove to be wintry with lake involvement and re-whiten everything for a couple more days. Then next week is pretty ugly.

Perhaps we can get a few more weeks of winter in March, as there are some indications it could be colder and active.

Too bad that snow on Friday will be falling on bare ground. 

1 minute ago, wolfie09 said:

Snow starting to slow down now, picked up 3.2", most of that in the last 40 minutes..

We’ll be lucky to get the 0.2 down here. 

4 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

Not sure if that LO band will make it here. Looks like it might be falling apart and turning at an angle where it only hits Extreme NE Onondaga county.

You must have your snow shield on high this morning. 

Ended up with 1.1 inches of snow last night, 0.04 liquid. Waiting for the lake band to sink south and weaken. 

3 minutes ago, rochesterdave said:

Totally agree. This one sailed a couple days ago. I always felt the GFS has a good handle on it. And yeah, I’d bet it moves 25-50 northwest as opposed to SE. 

I’ll still be watching it though. 

Looks to be a Chicago to Toronto storm. GFS has been locked in for a couple of days. 

Looking at the Salmon River cam on Earthcam it is snowing pretty good in Pulaski. Wolfie must be getting hit pretty good. The bad is moving south at pretty good rate and should be here within an hour. 

31 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

1976-1977 was the worst winter in Buffalos history with 200" of snow recorded at the airport, with much more south of the city. It also had the blizzard of 1977 which gave the city its name. 

1976-77

0

0

0

0.2

31.3

60.7

68.3

22.7

13.5

2.2

0.5

0

199.4

Living in Little Falls at the time I could pick up WKBW AM at night   I remember listening to their storm coverage for several days. The whole city of  Buffalo was basically shut down and eventually the National Guard was called in to assist in snow removal. The air mass that caused the blizzard was preceded by a cold front. In that winter temperatures around freezing were considered warm and that morning Little Falls was around freezing while Buffalo on the other side of the front was already in the single digits. Little Falls received close to a half a foot of snow just with the frontal passage. It was an amazing winter and an amazing storm. 

1 hour ago, Blue Moon said:

And another factoid- snow fell as far south as Homestead, FL on 1/19/1977, which is the same winter that set the seasonal snowfall record for Buffalo.

1/17/1977 snow was in the air at Freeport in the Bahamas, the only time it has snowed in those islands. The winter of 1976-77 went down as one of the coldest in the east and in fact provoked some talk that we were going into a new ice age. 

Snowing lightly here. You can see the snow showers building off the lake on radar. 

8 minutes ago, BGM Blizzard said:

Comes around as often as Halleys Comet. Hopefully you got another 70 years left in ya  

Matt might, I don’t!

3 minutes ago, Syrmax said:

In fact, here are my annual snowfalls:

04/05 139

05/06  128

06/07  144

07/08  132

08/09  155

09/10  114

10/11  178

11/12  44

12/13  121

13/14  143

14/15  130

15/16  72

16/17  103

17/18  138

18/19  136

19/20  88

20/21  78........

Avg  122.8"

Are these measurements all from the same place?

March 15, 2017. 

3 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

That's crazy. I was using those stats as a way to say no way it does it a 3rd year in a row. Still a chance at a good March, pattern doesn't look horrible. 

I say watch out around the Ides of March. The last 5 years we’ve had a couple of major snowstorms in the middle of March. The Superstorm of 93 was in the middle of March. 

11 minutes ago, Syrmax said:

Well, this is in my signature (not viewable on phone) but here are my last several winters:

Snowfall 2021/22 55.8” Thru 2/05/22 

Snowfall 2020/21 78.3” 

Snowfall 2019/20: 87.7" 

Snowfall 2018/19: 135.5" 

Snowfall 2017/18: 138.3”

 

It’s amazing we’re so close total wise. I’m at 55.7 inches as of today.  Last year I ended up with 81.3 inches. 

2 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

Yup, gets pretty toasty in the early morning hours ahead of the front..

This will eat up whatever snow we have left. 

20 minutes ago, rochesterdave said:

Fat lady singing! 

She’s warming up at least. 

It’s track is right down the St. Lawrence river valley.