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Upstate/Eastern New York-Into Winter!


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3 hours ago, TugHillMatt said:

Interesting 18Z run of the GFS. Tries to keep it almost all snow from CNY and eastward. Looks like it hits a wall as the cold air sinks in from the NE. Of course, it gets shredded, but like I talked about this morning, this is one of our only options if we want a White Christmas. I could also see that first "surprise" system that we are now seeing show up for Thursday night being the "stronger" of the two.

Wouldn't that be dandy if just east of ROC got a white Christmas at the 11th hour this year. 

I think I'd rather get kicked in the nuts.

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I've been going through some winter weather summarys and think even I have a misrepresentation of what a normal winter is like in Upstate. It seems 1-2 big events alter ones way of thinking in any given winter.

https://www.weather.gov/buf/wintersummary0607

THE WINTER OF 2006-07 WAS CERTAINLY A UNIQUE ONE FOR WESTERN AND
CENTRAL NEW YORK. IT WAS BRACKETED BY EXTREME EVENTS IN OCTOBER AND
APRIL...BUT GENERALLY STARTED VERY LATE BUT ENDED RELUCTANTLY. IT
WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE FREAK OCTOBER LAKE SNOW WHICH CRIPPLED
THE BUFFALO AREA...BUT NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WERE AMONG THE WARMEST
IN HISTORY AND LITTLE COLD OR SNOW WAS EVIDENT ANYWHERE UNTIL MID
JANUARY. BUT A HARSH 6 TO 8 WEEK PERIOD FOLLOWED WHICH INCLUDED THE
COLDEST FEBRUARY IN 28 YEARS. SPRING TEASED US IN LATE MARCH BEFORE
UNUSUAL COLD AND SNOW RETURNED FOR MUCH OF APRIL. REAL SPRING
FINALLY ARRIVED IN LATE APRIL AND HAS CONTINUED INTO A VERY PLEASANT
MAY. WINTER AS A WHOLE THOUGH WAS SOMEWHAT MILD WITH NEAR NORMAL
SNOWFALL.
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9 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

I've been going through some winter weather summarys and think even I have a misrepresentation of what a normal winter is like in Upstate. It seems 1-2 big events alter ones way of thinking in any given winter.

https://www.weather.gov/buf/wintersummary0607

THE WINTER OF 2006-07 WAS CERTAINLY A UNIQUE ONE FOR WESTERN AND
CENTRAL NEW YORK. IT WAS BRACKETED BY EXTREME EVENTS IN OCTOBER AND
APRIL...BUT GENERALLY STARTED VERY LATE BUT ENDED RELUCTANTLY. IT
WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR THE FREAK OCTOBER LAKE SNOW WHICH CRIPPLED
THE BUFFALO AREA...BUT NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WERE AMONG THE WARMEST
IN HISTORY AND LITTLE COLD OR SNOW WAS EVIDENT ANYWHERE UNTIL MID
JANUARY. BUT A HARSH 6 TO 8 WEEK PERIOD FOLLOWED WHICH INCLUDED THE
COLDEST FEBRUARY IN 28 YEARS. SPRING TEASED US IN LATE MARCH BEFORE
UNUSUAL COLD AND SNOW RETURNED FOR MUCH OF APRIL. REAL SPRING
FINALLY ARRIVED IN LATE APRIL AND HAS CONTINUED INTO A VERY PLEASANT
MAY. WINTER AS A WHOLE THOUGH WAS SOMEWHAT MILD WITH NEAR NORMAL
SNOWFALL.

I think there is a lot more winters like that, however, the stretches we haven’t seen snow this season seems strange. Maybe we all have our own idea of what winter is “supposed “ to be but in reality we just blocked out much of the crap years or periods 

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1 minute ago, Thinksnow18 said:

I think there is a lot more winters like that, however, the stretches we haven’t seen snow this season seems strange. Maybe we all have our own idea of what winter is “supposed “ to be but in reality we just blocked out much of the crap years or periods 

Exactly. If we get a 50"+ event in January you think anyone will remember anything else about this winter?

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14 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

Exactly. If we get a 50"+ event in January you think anyone will remember anything else about this winter?

Yes, because everything, and not just weather, seems to be in extremes these days. Extremes are much easier to remember. Although last year had a decent February, we remember the winter for the suckage that it was.

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6 minutes ago, rochesterdave said:

EURO says no dice. Says, “you fools crazy for even thinking that”

Both the 0Z GFS and Euro seem to try and keep our precip. on Christmas as virga or non-existent until the temp warms too much for snow...and we get rain. I say just let the lead wave on Christmas eve drop an inch or two and then this second thing just shred apart with no warm air being pulled in.

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