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No need for a Warning for inland Erie County because it was clear last night, and sunny today inland. But...the lakeshore should have a Warning, not an Advisory, due to a HEAVY snowband north of 90 for almost the entire shoreline of the county for a good chunk of last night and all day today. It is ripping.

2.3" since midnight, band drifted north a couple hours ago. 11.3" so far, quite fluffy. With compacting, 8" or so on the ground.

9" even as of midnight. Heaviest snow of the night as I came in from measuring. Off to bed, hopefully some serious shoveling early tomorrow morning!

Rip city at the moment, 2" per our I think. We are already close 6" for the event, with the vast majority falling from about 5pm ish till now (definitely Warning worthy out there, pretty nasty). We are already at the low end of the forecasted Advisory amount for this event - will be interested to see what out total will be come Saturday morning.

3" today as of 9pm. Funny that is all fell in the last few hours, right around 5:30 on as the Warning expired. So including the synoptic Weds night, had a modest total: 2.5 weds night, 1.2 thursday, 2.6 thursday night, 3.0 Friday = 9.3" This snowfall pushed my December total to 62.7", which is the most snow I have received in December in my 13 years living here.

Northern Crawford has done much better, Cambridge Springs 7 miles south of me reported 7 inches as of 2am. Not sure if that band last night / this morning was clipping southwestern Erie County or not, Albion, Elk Creek, etc. Will make a drive eastward this afternoon to see if Greene, Amity, Venango and Greenfield townships did any better. Although a co-worker was skiing at Holiday Valley yesterday and last night and said it was bad coming back westward on I-86 till he hit the PA line, then the snow promptly abated. I think the best snows will end up south. Saw that they recently hoisted warnings in Mercer and Venango counties.

A non-event thus far in central Erie County PA, from Edinboro to the lake-shore. Advisory nor Warning criteria was not met. From headlines starting at 4pm yesterday till 8am this morning, MBY in Edinboro area only got 2.6" and the lake-shore by Waldameer/Presque Isle got nothing / dusting at best. We experience the opposite issue around here - CLE certainly is not bashful about headlines when many times they are not close to being warranted, especially along the lake-shore.

From a friend, she thinks Edinboro got about 8" yesterday. Sounds plausible - from radar and webcams, looked like snow / heavy snow all morning and afternoon til it lifted north around 4pm. With that and my measurements, would be around 24" for the event: 7.5 Thursday, 1.5 Thurs night, 0 Friday, 7 Friday night, 8 Saturday.

17.5" for the event so far. Nothing fell during the day yesterday (Friday), but 7.5" overnight thru 8:45am this morning. Heading out of town now and it is snowing at a heavy clip. Think I am going to miss out on a good chunk of snow the next 9 or so days. Hope you all get lots of the white stuff. Good luck!

Hello all, As of 10pm, 7.5" so far in snowbelt of NWPA. Snowing at a nice clip now, maybe 1" per hour. Hope it keeps up. Quick question before my Christmas gift to everyone - how do you access / change your signature on this newer board version? Apparently, I do not possess the mental acumen to figure it out... Anyway, my gift to you all you fine NEOH and WNY snow enthusiasts. I am going out of town to Florida Sat. 12/10 until Tues 12/20 - therefore I am certain you guys will get blitzed with LES and maybe even a synoptic event whilst I am away - no doubt in my mind. Enjoy!

2.0" on the button IMBY. Most likely to add more tonight into tomorrow and possibly Sunday night. Great stuff for hockey playoffs this weekend (Go Otters!), but not so much for setting up an amusement park...

Huron band finally pushed overhead around 12:30pm. Looked like it was snowing at a good clip last couple hours, but went out to measure and only had 1.5" or so. Woeful flake size. However, the snowfall today has pushed me over the 100" mark, so that's a plus. Only 6.9" to go to pass the dreadful 2011-2012 winter.

3.1" in about 45 minutes when the squall moved thru last night. I saw a social media picture from Mt. Pleasant Ski Resort in Edinboro last night, about 5 miles to my east / south, claiming 6" in a half hour - not sure about that. Then unfortunately the LES was pretty much a no show. 1.0" overnight, 4.1" total. My least favorite weather currently - cold, dry, breezy.

Pretty good rip city at the moment. 3" per hour maybe, very nice out.

Thanks. Hope it yields some decent totals and nice rates.

1.2" today, 12.4" event total. On to the Friday-Saturday action. Perhaps even some synoptic activity in the form of snow early next week...

Rather pedestrian event here given the duration, 11.2" total as of 7:30am. 5.0" fell Tuesday night into Wednesday, 3.8" fell yesterday and 2.4" overnight. Not expecting much today, very weak returns on our local jet doppler radar. Light snow with tiny flake size at the moment.

As of 7:30am, 5.0" here as well since about 6pm last night. I echo the good start sentiment.

2.6" overnight. Snow+ at the moment IMBY, prob 5" for "event". Posters in western new York thread are liking the possibility of extended LES event next week after warmup. Maybe we can cash in...

Another solid snowfall overnight of 7.1", making a nice tidy sum of 23.0" total since noon-ish on Sunday.

Little overzealous on the amount I perceived we received today. Total for storm thus far: 15.9" = 2.6 yesterday + 8.5 overnight + 4.8 today. Snow has pretty much stopped at the moment, but bands off to my west right at the shoreline seem to want to push back in...hope so

Will give an accurate updated report this evening. Got 3" yesterday and 9" overnight. When I left this morning @ 7:45ish, was snowing around 2+" an hour. Been checking the weather cam today at the university and has been snowing all day. I am north and west of the school at higher elevation, so usually get more. My wife cleared the driveway again at 12ish, so maybe we r pushing 20"...?

Ended up with 14.3" total combined w/ clipper plus LES. Was ripping quite nicely last night from 9pm ish thru very early this morning. Wound down completely IMBY by 11am. I work right up along the lake just west of Erie and they did not get much today and nothing to speak of last night. Fingers crossed for upcoming chances...

Tough to measure with the wind, but "event #1" measured just under 6" imby as of 4am this morning, before band skirted off quickly north and then off shore. The fact that our Lakeshore is still under a warning in most certainly not warranted IMO. I'm confused as to BUF vs CLE as what to expect with LES "event #2". The 10:50 AFD our of Buffalo has the following: TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...LAKE PARAMETERS BECOME INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOWS SOUTHEAST OF THE LAKES IN A GENERAL 280-290 FLOW REGIME. 850 MB TEMPERATURES DROPPING TO NEAR -18C WILL CERTAINLY GENERATE EXTREME OVER-LAKE INSTABILITY WITH LAKE INDUCED EQUILIBRIUM LEVELS NEARING 18K FEET. MODEL SOUNDINGS KEEP THE DENDRITIC GROWTH ZONE PEGGED WITHIN THE CLOUD LAYER WHICH WILL LIKELY YIELD SNOWFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES PER HOURS FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR AREAS SOUTHEAST OF THE LAKES DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. Several counties southeast of Lake Ontario are under the LES Watch and well as the usual suspects of Chatauqua and Cattaraugus counties under the Watch off Erie with "Heavy Snow" in the point & click for areas well south and east of the lake. Past experience would lead me to believe in such situations Erie & Crawford county in PA and the typical counties in OH would be under the Watch at this point. I would also think State College would put Warren County PA under a Watch as well. Moreover, the Watch snowfall totals out of Cleveland of 5 to 8" are less than impressive. I assume the winds can be different direction off of Erie vs Ontario, but can they be that different at toward either end of Lake Erie? I was thinking that the next couple of days could yield decent totals, heck my point & click spits out over 20" on the high side of the numbers. We shall see...

It's been snowing "more" today & tonight IMBY than when we were under the LES Advisory yesterday afternoon and thru late last night, when we effectively got none (was 0.3" to be exact). About 3.0" since this very early this morning, snowing at a moderate clip at the moment.