Posted on 11/20/2014 12:14:40 PM PST by kosciusko51
I have a special place in my heart for lake effect snow. Living in Sault, Michigan as a teenager is what got me interested in weather and started me down my career path.
But it’s hard to compete with what Buffalo, New York gets for lake effect snow. Over six feet of snow fell in some areas on the south side of town in the last 48 hours, most of it in a 24 hour period.
The all-time U.S. record for a 24 hour snowfall is 76 inches in Silver Lake, Colorado way back in 1921, and it is possible this was exceeded yesterday. We will have to wait and see what NOAA decides.
The reason why Buffalo gets pounded so bad is the shape of Lake Erie…long and narrow, so a cold wind blowing down its length generates a single, intense snow band. You are either in it or out of it. Driving down the road, you can be in sunshine one minute, and in white-out conditions the next. This pair of pictures taken at the same time only 5 miles apart in Buffalo during the storm illustrates the fickle nature of lake effect storms.
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I wonder if the people who first settled there would have stayed if they had seen the depth of the winter snow first.
The folks in Valdez up to Thompson Pass laugh at the folks in Buffalo complaining about snow.
I think we need to move Buffalo.
That’s why the libs now like to call it climate change instead of global warming. So they can win the argument no matter what the weather brings.
I used to think that of the Northern Prairies.
I understand get trapped before winter, or having the wagon break down. But after the first winter, why the heck did they stay?
Mammoth Lakes, CA received eleven (11) feet of snow in a 24 hour period three or four years ago, but I guess that doesn’t count.
Just wow.
That was over 4 days I believe.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/12/mammoth_snow_13_feet_in_4_days.html
Great shot Caww. Thanks for the post.
Yeah. I grew up in Toledo but we never got hit like Buffalo does.
That’s one of the reasons why I always tell people to get a dog that has plenty of ground clearance.
Roof repair companies are going to be very busy.
And it gets worse, they are expecting a warm-up this weekend, and flooding as a result.
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