Well technically the storm went East of us and continued NE which is is why we have NW flow..A normal"cutter" or "apps runner" has much more westerly flow like last years Christmas system...
Not that I'm a huge snow depth guy but we never lost full cover even after a couple days of 40s..The bottom layer was like cement lol You could even see the big foot tracks from a couple days prior..
As of 4pm the front cleared parts of WNY according to the surface analysis, should clear the entire area between 11pm- 1AM..HRRR gets sub freezing temps into WNY by around midnight and east of Ontario 1-2AM..