Buffalo Adds to Their Snow Lead
Buffalo has added another 5 plus inches to their totals since the last update and snow is in the forecast for most of the Golden Snowball cities for today. Cold is an understatement to describe the conditions outside. Most of the schools in the Syracuse area are closed most likely due to the wind chill temps in the -10 to -20 degree range. Just a light snow right now in the Syracuse area but looking at the radars that could change to heavier snow if the lake effect snow keeps coming down south from the Oswego area.
The weather channel has been reporting from Oswego which is on it's way to picking up probably at least a couple of feet of snow. If your home it's worth watching because the reporter from the Weather Channel has been mentioning a lot of stats and so on. The Tug Hill and Watertown area got pounded and it will be interesting to see the snow totals from that area. I talked to my cousins wife Connie who lives in the Watertown area and she said they got a ton of snow yesterday morning and that was only round one and another round of snow was going to hit them again. I figured her 3 little ones would be having a blast in the snow but she said it was over their heads and I think she was afraid to let them out because she might lose them. That's a lot of snow. Tug Hill Tina from the forum said that they were getting quite a bit of snow and unfortunately she is having some battery problems other wise we would probably get a few good pictures from her.
It looks like Rochester is on the same path as Syracuse is for the lake effect snow. Looking west towards Buffalo it looks like lake Erie is starting to fire up just south of Dunkirk so today should be a snow filled one. Stay safe, dress warm and have a great day all!
posted by Patrick @ 10:22 AM
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10 Comments:
Temperatures in the Syracuse area did NOT fall to a frigid -10 to -20 degrees last night. Only the wind chill was around -20.
Anon, my bad and thanks for catching that. I left out the wind chill in the blog. All fixed and thanks again.
Buffalo has added another 5 plus inches to their totals since the last update...
:D :D :D
Something tells me Syracuse will be leading after the next update. And that something is the non-moving white field on the radar right now.
The lake effect band is only the biggest weather story in the country and once again, Syracuse is missing out as it goes to the north!! GRRRR!
Oh sure Jill, rub it in when were down. I'd do the same thing ;p
CK, believe it or not that big white blob came south and hung out most of Monday. Unfortunately it didn't come south enough though. Only 2 inches in the Syracuse area. As it was dropping down I thought for sure that DaCuse and Rochester were gonna make out good. On the west side I'm sure some Buffalonians were thinking the opposite hoping the their snow band that was to the south of the city would lift up north.
NYCO, hard to believe isn't it? Then again one of the forum members mentioned a possibility of up to another 5 feet of snow falling before it's over. 3 feet of snow is in my comfort zone I think. 7 - 10 feet might be an inch or two too much for me to ask for ;) It is kind of depressing though and hard to comprehend that only 30 miles or so away is getting pounded and the sky's are blue here.
The media also misled me... News 10 Now had this report that basically made it sound like Hancock was barely staying open.. But I guess that was more blowing snow than falling snow. The radar made it look like it kept falling over the airport, but 2 inches isn't exactly a lot!
CK, The winds were blowing pretty good here most of the day. As for the Radar, I kept looking out the window to see if it was snowing because I thought the same as you. The radar looked like the edge was right over us. No such luck though.
Awww Snowman, I wasn't rubbing anything in - that was just the best imitation of a Happy Dance emoticon I could come up with :)
I think that the lead is going to bounce around a *lot* before the contest is over... I just wish that we could get snow without all this below-freezing-windchill. I really don't mind the cold, but these winds have been brutal over the past few days ~insert shivering emoticon here~ I want to be able to *enjoy* the snow, too!
Yeah, the wind has been pretty brutal here also. I just shoveled what we got overnight and the wind was blasting pretty good. I really need to invest in a pair of gloves before the winter is over ;) It's tough shoveling with one hand in my pocket and one on the shovel.
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