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I’m sitting at 44 right now. Barely touched 50 briefly this afternoon. As I said a couple of days ago with the east wind coming off Oneida Lake it wouldn’t come near 60 here. With dew points near freezing the snowpack is only going down relatively slowly. This is a picture in my neighborhood from yesterday. I’ll take some tomorrow to show how much snow is left. 

BTW, it was 27 years between the Blizzard of ‘66 and the Storm of ‘93 and next year will be 27 years since ‘93 so we can only hope!

My avatar is a satellite picture of that storm. Look at the size of the deformation zone and warm conveyor!  As you said, Syracuse was ground zero with a total of 42 inches of snow. The track was perfect, if that storm occurred this year it probably would have passed up through the Great Lakes, lol. What I remember about that storm was sitting at work with my radio on a couple of days before the storm and hearing the EAS activation. I grew up during the Cold War when the Emergency Broadcast System, as it was known then, was meant to alert us that we were being nuked so hearing the activation tones scared the crap out of me.  The other thing was this storm was the first where all the major numerical models at the time predicted a major storm along the east coast days in advance.  I lived in Little Falls in the Mohawk Valley at the time and we ended up with about 30 inches.  Unfortunately with it happening in mid March the snow didn’t last long. I’ve experienced a few 2 foot storms in my life but the only storm to compare with this one was probably the Blizzard of ‘66. 

36 minutes ago, rochesterdave said:

Haha. I know. I’ve got this disease of ours bad. 26 years ago today the entire EC was slammed with a blizzard of biblical proportions. I doubt any of us will ever see a storm of that magnitude again in our lifetimes. 

I remember nearly falling down the stairs, in excitement, when the weather channel screen went all red and declared a blizzard warning for all of NYS. Up until the day before, the storm was expected to just clip the WNY region. 24 hrs out the models adjusted west and showed the LP tracking to near Poughkeepsie, a perfect track for our area. Syracuse got over 40” and Pittsford (where I lived) had 26” on the ground by the finish. A boarded measure would of surely placed me at or above 30”. 

6 years later, Rochester had a double storm that buried us with 42”in 3 days. But it still didn’t come close to the intensity and size of ‘The Storm of the Century’. 

Good times! I’ll have to post my pics someday. 

My folks have pics of the 78 storm. Folks in Rochester almost always confuse that with Buffalo’s storm of 77. 

It’s really coming down here right now. I wasn’t expecting this!

 Where’s the cold air in North America?  If winter’s not over it’s on it’s last legs. 

I agree this was kind of a strange winter. We had some decent snow events and some really cold temperatures but the predominant storm track to our west brought too much rain and warm temperatures to make this anything but an average winter. I’m giving it a B- here only because we managed to build up a decent snowpack over the last 2 weeks. 

It might hit 60 at KSYR but I’ll be luck to get out of the 40s with that block of ice that Oneida Lake is right now a quarter of a mile from me. 

Interesting how the models pick up on the colder air over Oneida Lake. That air will probably bleed over me and I’ll end up in the 40s while the airport is in the 60s. 

Normal highs next week are in the low 40s. The seasons march on....

3.9 inches yesterday, 6.5 for the entire event. A little more this morning. Less than I hoped for but it is what it is. Had some of the most intense snowfall rates of the winter but it was always in transition so accumulations were not great. 

The intensity has picked up again in the last few minutes even though we’re on the southern edge of the band. 

I thought Channel 9 on their noon news said it was going to stay south of us all afternoon. 

1 minute ago, CNY-LES FREAK said:

Move around quite a bit but it wasn't supposed to get this far North, unpredictable.

 

6 minutes ago, CNY-LES FREAK said:

Gonna pass us right by CNY, lol!

Ya it already let up here. 

S+ here in Brewerton. 4.1 inches in the first round hopefully we can at least match that in this round. 

Snow has pretty much stopped here too. The band is just to my south and should weaken during the day as diurnal effects disrupt it. 

The snow has lightened up again here but I just measured an inch in the last hour. 

Extremely heavy snow right now!

2.6 inches overnight.  The town plow came through the neighborhood yesterday to push the snow banks back and nailed my mailbox. My tube for measuring precipitation was mounted on the back of the mailbox post and got knocked off so I can’t get a liquid equivalent. After a break in the snow the band moved back north and it’s currently snowing heavily again. 

Snowing here now. Even though the band is weakening it’s coming down heavily. 

Waiting for this band to make it down to me!

1 hour ago, Syrmax said:

They had some low ratio snow there near the shoreline.  Coastal CT reports this a.m. are supporting 5 or 6:1. And it was all snow. Yuck.  About 1.2 - 1.3" liquid and 5 or 6" snow. Interior did better ratio wise.

Jim Cantore just reported from Boston that the snow on the ground is pure slush. I love snow but I dislike that wet springlike snow. Half of what fell in SNE will be melted by the end of the day. 

Major tornado outbreak going on in the south right now. 14 reported dead in one county in Alabama.