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this storm was sooo crazy! all evening i had to watch hvy snow on radar 10 miles west of me. LITERALLY! I watched it on webcams too. now that it is here. im afraid of the dryslot forming just south of rochester. Im nuts.

 

Your right this storm is insane. If that deform band pivots and stays over us all night were going to be clobbered by tomorrow morning. Going out in a minute for my 12:30 measurement. I still say someone in Wyoming County hills gets 12+ out of this. This is definitely WSW criteria all across WNY. The NWS not issuing one was a failure. The roads out there today with the slush were some of the worst driving conditions all year.

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one of the most interesting things about this storm has been the NWS (out of BUF by the way, lol) has absolutely refused to raise winter storm warning flags. even though they have been warranted for the last 4 or so hours. What gives? They arent usually pridefull like this. It was a horrible storm to forecast. but it is a few degrees colder. NWS should of pulled the trigger before the 11 o'clock news when forecaster Josh Nichols in Rochester correctly raised his total to 6-10" in METRO rochester. Certainly warning criteria. NWS is lucky tomorrow is a sunday so no major consequences. I remember years ago they used to act funny about this stuff. but Nizzolio put them in line. I'll bet some new dude (or more likely girl) was on and just didnt care.

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Landed up with 7.5". Quite a bit more than the original 1-2" the NWS was calling for last night. Still a flurry or two in the air. Nice event for sure! Still think a warning should have been raised for S Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming and Allegany counties where totals were in the general range of 6-12" , all falling in a 12 hour period or less.

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Landed up with 7.5". Quite a bit more than the original 1-2" the NWS was calling for last night. Still a flurry or two in the air. Nice event for sure! Still think a warning should have been raised for S Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming and Allegany counties where totals were in the general range of 6-12" , all falling in a 12 hour period or less.

Yep...tough forecast for sure, but, IMO, should have been a recognition that WNY was on it's way to warning criteria event last evening...so a bust.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

SPOTTER REPORTS

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY

904 AM EDT SUN MAR 30 2014

**********************24 HOUR SNOWFALL**********************

LOCATION 24 HOUR TIME/DATE COMMENTS

SNOWFALL OF

/INCHES/ MEASUREMENT

NEW YORK

...ALLEGANY COUNTY...

RUSHFORD 3.2 630 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

ALFRED 2.7 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

4 SW WEST ALMOND 1.9 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 E WHITESVILLE 1.2 709 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...

4 SW ALLEGHENY STATE 5.0 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

1 ENE RANDOLPH 4.0 730 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

5 N ALLEGANY 3.0 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...CAYUGA COUNTY...

8 SSE AUBURN 1.3 600 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...

2 SW FORESTVILLE 9.5 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

CHERRY CREEK 7.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

4 SSW RIPLEY 6.7 655 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

4 ENE JAMESTOWN 3.0 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...ERIE COUNTY...

ANGOLA 8.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

1 N ORCHARD PARK 7.5 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

2 SE GLENWOOD 7.5 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

2 NE BOSTON 7.5 745 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

ENE EAST AURORA 7.0 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 ESE EAST AURORA 7.0 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

3 WSW ELMA 6.4 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

WEST FALLS 6.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

2 SSW BLASDELL 6.0 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

3 NE CHEEKTOWAGA 5.6 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

NY BUFFALO INTL ARPT 5.6 800 AM 3/30 ASOS

2 W WEST SENECA 4.9 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

2 NNW WILLIAMSVILLE 4.7 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

WSW HAMBURG 4.3 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

BUFFALO 4.2 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

3 E WILLIAMSVILLE 4.2 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

5 NNE AMHERST 3.8 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

ESE KENMORE 3.1 640 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...GENESEE COUNTY...

2 NE STAFFORD 9.6 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...JEFFERSON COUNTY...

WATERTOWN 9.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

ALEXANDRIA BAY 8.0 829 AM 3/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

...LEWIS COUNTY...

LOWVILLE 2.0 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

5 SSW HARRISVILLE 1.5 530 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

6 N CROGHAN 1.2 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

CROGHAN 1.2 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 SSW GLENFIELD 1.0 600 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 NW CONSTABLEVILLE 1.0 600 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

HIGHMARKET 0.8 442 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

SW BEAVER FALLS 0.2 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...LIVINGSTON COUNTY...

LIVONIA 8.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

1 ENE DANSVILLE 4.0 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...MONROE COUNTY...

PENFIELD 10.0 700 AM 3/30 BROADCAST MEDIA

ROCHESTER INTL ARPT 8.4 800 AM 3/30 ASOS

2 ENE BROCKPORT 7.8 802 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 NW NORTH CHILI 6.5 900 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

CHILI CENTER 6.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

WEBSTER 6.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

SPENCERPORT 6.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

...NIAGARA COUNTY...

1 NNE NORTH TONAWAND 3.9 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

2 NE NORTH TONAWANDA 3.5 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 NE PENDLETON 3.1 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

6 E NIAGARA FALLS 0.2 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...ONTARIO COUNTY...

PHELPS 5.0 800 AM 3/30 SOCIAL MEDIA

...ORLEANS COUNTY...

ALBION 6.0 800 AM 3/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

...OSWEGO COUNTY...

W FULTON 1.0 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

SE MINETTO 0.4 800 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...WAYNE COUNTY...

2 SW WALWORTH 8.5 700 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

1 E NEWARK 3.9 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

3 ESE MACEDON 3.7 608 AM 3/30 COCORAHS

...WYOMING COUNTY...

6 SW WARSAW 6.5 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

3 N SILVER SPRINGS 3.5 700 AM 3/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

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After doing calculations this morning my seasonal snowfall total now stands at 171.0" which is by far the most snow I have ever experienced in a single season anywhere I've lived since 1994. Quite an incredible season with 2 blizzard warnings (before this season there wasn't a blizzard warning issued by BUF for 21 years) , countless windchill advisories or warnings, and one of the coldest November-March periods in history.

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Pretty much got clobbered here on the West side of the ROC.  8 inches of 8:1 (the ratio might even be lower than that) snow in the driveway this morning.  If that wasnt a winter storm I don't know what is.  BUSTED.....

 

Oh well, they've done a phenomenal job all year, we'll give them a pass on this one.

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Looks like we got the whole mixed bag here lol. At some point overnight it must have switched over to freezing rain then to all snow for a bit before all that it was a monsoon of rain. Everything had a nice coating of ice with a coating of snow on that. Crazy weather this has been.

Same here in Phoenix. 1.42" of rain. A soaker. I was bummed a bit we didn't switch to a heavy, wet snow. It would of been snowing so hard late last evening. Oh well.

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7.5 inch total. What an epic wet snowstorm. This is the most insane winter I've ever lived through I think.

definitley a once in a generation winter around these parts. With climate change and how cold/snowy we really were this year it's not unreasonable to think we may never experience a winter quite this harsh (persistent cold, 2 blizzard warnings, countless windchill advisories/warnings and 50-75" above seasonal snowfall averages) again in our lifetimes.
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MANUAL FORECASTER ADJUSTMENTS SOLIDIFIED A THREAT FOR DYNAMIC LOW/FRONTAL SYSTEM
DEVELOPMENT OVER THE E-CENTRAL US EARLY NEXT WEEK THAT WOULD HAVE
THE POTENTIAL TO ADVECT IN DEEP LAYERED GULF AND ATLANTIC MOISTURE TO FUEL HEAVY WARM SECTOR/FRONTAL CONVECTIVE RAINFALL ALONG WITH LATE SEASON ORGANIZED SNOWS ON THE
NW/NRN TIERS OF THE OVERALL PRECIPITATION SHIELD ACROSS THE
MIDWEST/NORTHEAST IN A LINGERING COLDER AIRMASS.  THIS OVERALL
PATTERN PREFERENCE SEEMS REASONABLE CONSIDERING MOST GUIDANCE
BUILDS QUITE A AMPLIFIED AND WARMING MID-UPPER LEVEL RIDGE
UPSTREAM OVER WRN NORTH AMERICA AND SIGNIFICANT ENERGIES SPLIT
INTO DISTINCT NRN AND ESPECIALLY SRN STREAM FLOWS.

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