Over here in Michigan we call what you are experiencing”weather”. Break out the wine and the booze. Sounds like it’s going to be a doozy! :-)
I concur. Here in Upstate NY this is called “snowfall”
I believe NYS knows what the difference is between weather and blizzard. I lived all of my early life (30 yrs.) where we got >125 inches of snow every year. (That would be Buffalo and Syracuse)
In 1985, I traded blizzards for hurricanes and never looked back !