CNY_WX

23 minutes ago, Phillifan22 said:

It’s just lights from a town or city creating a glow on the underside of the clouds


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Probably looking towards Buffalo?

1 minute ago, AppsRunner said:

My favorite type of METAR:

KBUF 302054Z 24020G34KT 0SM R23/0500V1200FT +SN BLSN

I know we have fantastic snow removal operations at our upstate airports but it still amazes me they can keep the flights going in weather like this. Obviously instrument flight rules are in effect. 

Sorry SouthBuffaloSteve, I thought you meant the 3 obs were over a 3 hour period. 

24 minutes ago, SouthBuffaloSteve said:

KBUF just verified 3 continuous hours of blizzard conditions.

The bottom two observations are special obs at 1827Z and 1848Z and the third is the regular observation at 1854Z so this isn’t a 3 hour period. 

7 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Watertown. 

The band that was up in the thousand islands earlier s now getting swept off the lake with the arctic front. That’s what you were in the middle of. 

Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

Getting absolutely crushed here now. Less than .2 SM visibility. 

Where are you now?

Looks like the Buffalo airport is getting blitzed right now. 1/16 mile visibility in heavy snow!  Are planes taking off and landing in that?

KBUF 301654Z 26019G30KT 1/16SM R23/1200V2200FT +SN BLSN VV012 M18/M21 A2988 RMK AO2 PK WND 26030/1650 SLP135 P0000 T11781206

Light pixie dust falling here ahead of the arctic front. 

10 minutes ago, CNY-WXFREAK said:

We may actually see a few flakes from that death band to my North, lol, as I'm tracking one last AF due to arrive tomorrow evening into Friday where we may pick up 2-3" but I definitely don't believe any model that has us getting more than 4" South of say, Central Square, as thats about where the band falls off the Lake

Thanks a lot! 

42 minutes ago, CNY-LES FREAK said:

Not even a flower here in Syracuse as I just came back from Rochester Phelps where it was snowing not early in fact got back to Syracuse not even a flurry . If this keeps up Syracuse is going to end the year perhaps with record low snowfall! In fact unless we have a blockbuster February and at least some snow in March I think below-normal snowfall is a lock this year

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It’s snowing light to moderate here coming up on one inch. I believe Syracuse has already surpassed it’s record low snowfall. 

GENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
306 PM EST Mon Jan 28 2019

NYZ018-036-044-045-056-PAZ039-043-044-047-292015-
/O.UPG.KBGM.WS.A.0003.190129T1200Z-190130T1200Z/
/O.NEW.KBGM.WW.Y.0007.190129T0600Z-190130T0600Z/
Onondaga-Madison-Cortland-Chenango-Broome-Susquehanna-Wyoming-
Lackawanna-Luzerne-
Including the cities of Syracuse, Hamilton, Oneida, Cortland,
Norwich, Binghamton, Hallstead, Montrose, Tunkhannock, Scranton,
Hazleton, and Wilkes-Barre
306 PM EST Mon Jan 28 2019

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TUESDAY TO 1 AM
EST WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 4 to 7 inches
  expected. Snowfall rates up to 1 inch per hour are possible at
  times Tuesday into Tuesday evening. Winds gusting up to 35 mph.

* WHERE...In Pennsylvania, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Lackawanna and
  Luzerne counties. In New York, Onondaga, Madison, Cortland,
  Chenango and Broome counties.

* WHEN...From 1 AM Tuesday to 1 AM EST Wednesday.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Travel could be very difficult. The
  hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening
  commute. Very cold to even dangerously cold wind chills are
  expected to begin late Tuesday night and continue through at
  least Thursday night.

1 minute ago, CNY-WXFREAK said:

look at how disgustingly close we are to that band CNY, lol!

I was tempted to post the same thing. Par for the course, not that it will amount to anything but a mile south of me it’s probably snowing pretty good. 

Pouring snow here. 

...A SNOW SQUALL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 AM EST FOR
NORTHERN CAYUGA AND ONONDAGA COUNTIES...

At 925 AM EST, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line
extending from 7 miles north of Central Square to Marcellus to Union
Springs, moving northeast at 60 mph.

HAZARD...Heavy snow and blowing snow. Wind gusts up to 30 mph.

SOURCE...Radar and webcams.

IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.

This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 90 between 34A and 39.
New York Interstate 81 between 16A and 30.

Locations impacted include...
Onondaga, Syracuse, Clay, Cicero, Auburn, De Witt, Van Buren,
Baldwinsville, North Syracuse and Solvay.

1 hour ago, wolfie09 said:

New map

If you ask me these maps are getting to be something of a joke. How much faith can anyone put in them when they seem to change significantly every time they’re updated. Just yesterday they had 4-6 inches for southern Oswego County which is a stone throw from where I live. Now it’s down to <1 inch. Someone would need to be constantly checking for updates to see what the latest forecast is and how many people outside of us s do that?

Just started snowing heavily here in the last 5 minutes. The orientation of the band to the southwest gives me hope it might last here a little longer than 10 minutes. 

If you look at the orientation of this Lake Erie band west of Sodus it could end up orienting from Oswego to Mexico to Pulaski. 

3 minutes ago, Syrmax said:

Legitimate snow also, large dendrites. Unlike the rice snow during last weeks StormThatShallNotBeNamed.

Snow should be ending downtown in the next half hour as the band moves north. 

53 minutes ago, CNY-WXFREAK said:

That Lake Erie band is absolutely incredible as it extends all the way to So Herkimer county, wow!

If you look at the Albany radar it actually extends all the way to Vermont!

Both bands drifting north right now. The Lake Ontario band looks like it will end up north of Watertown this morning. I might get a few crumbs off that Lake Erie band but probably nothing more than mood flakes. 

1.7 inches here overnight. A couple flakes in the air right now, what a tease!

Band’s heading north. 

It doesn’t look that impressive but it’s producing right now. 

3 minutes ago, CNY-WXFREAK said:

That's what I was thinking a well so we'll see.  Did any of the models predict this band, if so, when does it break it up or shall I say move it to the North after the passage of the SW?

The mesos had a band just south of us at 2Z moving through here around 4Z on it’s way north. They didn’t show a fairly stationary band over us this early.