The National Weather Service warned "paralyzing snowfall" will blanket parts of western and northern New York. Folks living in the cities of Buffalo and Watertown could be using yardsticks by the end of the weekend to measure the snow.
Liz Jurkowski, a meteorologist at NWS' Buffalo office, told NYTimes that NWS' use of words is "very rare."
"We usually don't pull these terms out except for historic events," Jurkowski said.
Snow begins Wednesday night and will continue through Saturday for Buffalo and Watertown. These areas could see between 1 and 3 feet of snow. Here's more on possible snow totals via FOX Forecast Center:
The highest totals will likely be centered directly over the Buffalo and Watertown metro areas because of the nearly stationary bands of snow from Thursday night through Friday night. Between 1 and 3 feet of snowis expected to pile up by Sunday afternoon, with localized amounts of up to 4 feet not ruled out.
used to be quite common back in the late '50s
ReplyDelete1 to 3 feet = paralyzing....lol....in flake land....
DeleteBuffalo, NY ... historically inundated by lake effect snow ...
ReplyDeletethey're used to lake effect ... as little as one foot of snow over 3 days and that is a rare event?
Even if they got four feet of snow, this may be unusual only because its still mid-November. Other than the date, there is nothing unusual or rare.
When did Chick Little take over the NWS?
There is nothing wrong with your set. We control the horizontal, we control the verticle. We will tell you how to react.
ReplyDeleteDissatisfied with reporting the weather, they now report the narrative.
Why does Buffalo get so much snow? that's the area where the cold air from Canada comes down and meets all of the hot air coming from Washington DC. I'm only 45 minutes south of Erie PA, so far so good.
ReplyDeleteLol and ditto the climate hoax chorus. I was born and raised and lived the first 20 years of my life in Boofahloo (the next 20 in Roch-cha-cha).
DeleteIts not NORMAL to get 3 feet of snow, but 1 foot a day isn't obscene. Hit like that in 1 day, which I have seen, is tough, for 2 days until the plows get everything cleaned up. The guys in the DPW there are amazing. Buy them a beer.
As to Jack's question: lake effect snow is a direct result of winds, and wind direction. The wind travels over an open body of water picking up moisture (Lake Erie in this case - big lake, lotta water). When it hits land, the temp drops, water precipitates out (as snow). Thats why lake effect snow is always at the shore and a few miles inland. After a while, the accumulated water is all dropped, and inland there is no snow. So direction of wind determines who gets hit, in this case they are predicting Buffalo off Lake Erie and Watertown off Ontario (both in same 'spot'on the lakeshore relative to wind direction. If the wind shifts a few degrees, the next town over gets whacked.
When I lived in Rochester, we used to laugh at Buffalo - winds typically move West to East, Roch is on the SOUTH side of the lake - snow blew right by us. If the wind was coming out of the North to the South, we got WHACKED, but not as bad (less water - width of lake east west vs north south)., and 20 minutes down the road there was no snow at all. Weird stuff.
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ReplyDeleteReally, that's not unusual at all. 7 feet would be unusual, not 1-3 feet.
It must be global warming that's caused the unusually cool and wet year here in the eastern Midwest.
Yeah, apparently that is how weather works now. The warmer it gets, the more snow you get.
DeleteActually kinda sorta, related to the temp of the water in Lake Erie. The warmer the lake (for whatever reason...), the more open water there is, more moisture for the air passing over it to absorb. In the deep freeze of winter when most of the lake surface is frozen over, you do not get lake effect snow.
DeleteLake Erie is very shallow, it almost always freezes over every year.
DeleteAs best I can remember, there was a story just like this one a few years ago. The weather dude goes to talk to the Mayor about how awful it was. He looks at them funny and says, "it's Buffalo. It snows in November."
ReplyDeleteI got maybe 2" down here in catt co, they can have it up there
ReplyDeleteThis is far from unusual here and it is the media crying Armageddon by saying paralyzing. 2 feet of snow is met with "I see it snowed last night."
ReplyDeleteI lived in Buffalo as a wee tyke and remember the 10 ft snowbanks at the side of the road - we used to tunnel through them and make multi-story snow forts. 3 ft is a little unusual, but a long ways from 'historic'. Sounds like they gave this to a 22 year old cub reporter.
ReplyDeleteThere was a bad storm in the 80s when people were climbing out second story windows because the drifts were so high. Buffalo got a real reputation after that.
DeleteHave seen 2' of snow overnight here in east Tennessee. BFD!
ReplyDeleteJust more of the crap we're constantly fed by our stinkin' rotten,
corrupt media every day.
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Lived in Syracuse for a winter. I remember riding my bike to go play tennis in May, wearing just shorts and tennies, and pedaling past 16 foot piles of snow in the parking lots.
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