Posted on 11/16/2022 5:40:01 PM PST by george76
A long-duration lake-effect snowstorm is expected to bury parts of western and northern New York, including the cities of Buffalo and Watertown, under up to 3 feet of snow into this weekend.
Bands of heavy snow are expected to develop to the east and northeast of lakes Erie and Ontario beginning Wednesday night and continuing right through Sunday, when the Buffalo Bills are scheduled to host the Cleveland Browns at Highmark Stadium in the Buffalo Southtowns.
Lake-Effect Snow Warnings have been issued from the Buffalo metro area southwestward into northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio
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This will be the start of a prolonged lake-effect snow event which will likely include paralyzing snowfall for the Buffalo and Watertown areas late this week through the weekend," the National Weather Service office in Buffalo
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3 feet of snow is expected to pile up by Sunday afternoon, with localized amounts of up to 4 feet not ruled out.
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More than 5 feet of snow crippled the Buffalo Southtowns, with South Cheektowaga tallying the most snowfall at 65 inches in just two days between Nov. 17-19, 2014.
Hundreds of major roof collapses and structural failures were reported, thousands of drivers were stranded, and there were scattered food and gas shortages due to impassable roads. Numerous trees also fell down due to the weight of the snow, causing isolated power outages where trees were toppled onto power lines.
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A 132-mile stretch of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) was shut down for several days from the Pennsylvania border to Rochester, New York.
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Rochester, some 70 miles east of Buffalo, averages 102 inches of snow each winter, while Syracuse – America's snowiest city – typically receives 127.8 inches of snow.
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We (mid-South USA) seem to be in a pattern of Falls that switch from warm to unusually cool in (varies a bit) early Nov., then back to warmer than avg. in late Jan. to early Feb. and usually lasting through Spring, tho’ with a decent chance of an unusually big snowfall around March 1. All 3 of our late fall (Nov.) snowfalls over 1” on record have been since 1993.
Some years I’ve kept tomatoes going until Thanksgiving by covering them on cold nights. NOT the last few years, and not even close, this year.
Granted that the area might get THIS in Dec.:
https://www.weather.gov/pah/December-10th-11th-2021-Tornado
This could be a humdinger. They had a warm fall so Erie is “warm”. The cold air coming down from Canada will pick up huge amounts oof moisture. They have already had snow in Pittsburgh which is an indicator.
I had friends, here in New Jersey, with big dump trucks, who went up to work during that blizzard.
We got a lot of help from other communities.
The most fascinating thing was Toronto sending down their Metro Melter, which was basically a giant snowblower truck with likely propane or oil fuel that chewed up the snowbanks and then melted it and put it down the sewer.
There was nothing else to do with the snow. Buffalo is a very compact city and there was literally nowhere to put the snow. Lake Erie was frozen over and they couldn’t dump it there.
What’s unusual is that while the southtowns are currently getting the snow, the big forecast is for tonight through Sunday for northern Buffalo and Batavia.
It appears that the winds will shift around and park over the northern suburbs and give them 2-3 feet of snow.
Yes, the snow belt used to start right on 219 South at the McKinley blvd exit for the stadium(Rich Stadium when I lived there).
We mostly skied at Kissing Bridge because several of my friends had passes. One was on the Orchard Park HS girls ski team. Plus it was about a half hour south of our house.
I only skied at Holiday Valley a few times. There was another private ski club down in Ellicottvile our friends were members of. I skied a couple times with them there. I can’t recall the name.
My mom lived in Orchard Park until her death three years ago. My parents bought that house in 1967. It had about 5 acres. I was four when we moved there. It was the edge of the country back then. Not really suburbia. Plenty of area around there to hunt, ride dirt bikes, snowmobiles, go carts, etc. Plus we had horses and a pony. There were still farms just a mile or two south of our house back then. Now, that area is full of big expensive houses. Jim Kelly used to live in one of those subdivisions about a mile away from my moms house. All the fields, woods where I hunted and rode horses and dirt bikes are full of houses right up to Chestnut Ridge Park.
Exactly true.
Right now the winds are out of the NW, so Pulaski NY near Lake Ontario is getting most of todays snow.
With the anticipated wind shift over the Lake Erie, Western Penna. and the snow belt around Buffalo will start accumulating snow.
I remember years ago during the blizzard, that emergency services could only get in by snowmobile;
the snow was too heavy that even 4-wheelers couldn't get into the area.
Your reply makes me shiver and want to immediately buy milk, bread and toilet paper. AND I’m in southern Maryland!
The NFL has bailed on the Browns game in Buffalo. The game has been moved to Detroit.
I’m below Erie Pa about half way and we just never know how much we’ll get if any from the lake effect storms. Wind is of course a factor as well.
But at 11:30 tonight we’ve got 27 degrees with real feel at 15. So it’s nippy out there!
I also remember it as you described. It was very beautiful there.
It’s a shame it all got so built up.
A relative in Kenmore said that they were getting nailed this evening.
Then the snow band was supposed to move south and hit the southtowns for a while and come back with a vengeance Saturday, I think it was, and that was going to be when they really get socked.
The radar was showing a lot of lightning, which means thundersnow.
I don’t think they have any choice this time.
“A long-duration lake-effect snowstorm is expected to bury parts of western and northern New York, including the cities of Buffalo and Watertown, under up to 3 feet of snow into this weekend.”
This morning “they” were predicting 5 to 6 feet, biggest lake effect blizzard in 27 tears, climate change, blah, blah.
A friend of my brother who still lives in Orchard Park said they have gotten 2’ since yesterday and it’s supposed to snow all day
Looks like they will be well over 5 feet at that rate.
My sister tells me that on the news they were mentioning that Kissing Bridge and Holiday Valley look like they will be opening early for the season this year.
The band of snow they are showing on the radar om weather.com does not seem to be hitting Holiday Valley. It is hitting Springville and north. Kissing Bridge is getting hammered though.
The full commentary statement is :
"Dreary Erie..,
the mistake by the Lake"
I was visiting my daughter at school up in Pottsdam, NY and I guess I stayed too late for the snowstorm.
While traveling South on Rt 81, in an almost blinding snow, I was following a State dump truck with a humoungus 12 foot high snow blower on the front.
All of a sudden it stopped dead in the single southbound lane, and started to back up, until he saw my headlights in back of his rig.
He turned around going northbound in the southbound lane, and cut a path to the northbound lane - I looked ahead and saw only a 12 snow drift dead ahead blocking the road,
I could go no further, so I too turned around and went briefly northbound in the southbound land until I saw a "cut-off", recently dug out by the State truck to the northbound lane and returned to Watertown.
I stayed the overnight in Watertown, and laughed when the TV weather said that it was -17 below at Fort Drum, figuring that closer to the Lake it had to be warmer.
Wrong!
The TV weather said that Watertown was -27 below, and that night, when I had gone outside briefly around midnight,
it was the first time I had ever seen "Frozen Fog", coming towards me, shimmering in the street lights.
Absolutely chilling and yet awesome !
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