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How Much Snow in Buffalo? Imagine 6 SUVs Parked on Your Roof, All 22K Pounds of Them (only 8.17 years left)
NBC New York ^ | 11/18/22 | Storm Team 4

Posted on 11/18/2022 2:02:54 PM PST by Libloather

It's one thing to say it snowed more than 3 feet. It's another when you think about how much that weighs.

Upstate New York, especially Buffalo and Watertown, is getting hammered by a potentially historic winter storm dumping more than 3 feet on spots -- and barely anything on others a few miles away. How does that work?

Well, that's lake-effect snow for you. Learn how it forms and more about that weather phenomenon here.

**SNIP**

Old snow is even heavier. We crunched some numbers using estimates of snow weights and vehicles from various sources. Check out the equivalents of the average weight of a foot and more of snow (and old snow) on your roof.

Average weight of 12" of fresh snow on a roof: 7,000 pounds = 2 compact SUVs parked on the roof

Average weight of 24" of fresh snow on a roof: 15,000 pounds = 4 compact SUVs parked on the roof

Average weight of 36" of fresh snow on a roof: 22,000 pounds = 6 compact SUVs parked on the roof

Average weight of 48" of fresh snow on a roof: 30,000 pounds = 9 compact SUVs parked on the roof

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: buffalo; globalcooling; pounds; roof; snow
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To: Repeal The 17th

And a ‘wet snow’ is considerably heavier than a light, ‘fluffy snow’.


21 posted on 11/18/2022 2:39:27 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Libloather

I remember the olden days when the only thing to be careful of was radioactive fallout in the snow.


22 posted on 11/18/2022 2:44:32 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK in Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
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To: Libloather

You can’t say how much the snow weighs because it depend on Square footage and water content. And if they are using an average then that is just idiotic. Because there is a big difference between a small roof and a big one. People have been so dumbed down.


23 posted on 11/18/2022 2:46:26 PM PST by Revel
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To: Libloather
Average weight of 12" of fresh snow on a roof: 7,000 pounds

Lake effect snow is very light and fluffy. It's dry.

The "average weight of fresh snow" is much heavier than the average weight of fresh lake effect snow.

Seems to me, Storm Team 4 is exaggerating the weight problem.

24 posted on 11/18/2022 2:46:28 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

A news station exaggerating the severity of an upcoming storm? The hell you say.


25 posted on 11/18/2022 2:57:53 PM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: Chode

I am in west Michigan, I take my roof every winter.


26 posted on 11/18/2022 2:58:38 PM PST by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: Libloather

How much square footage of a roof? Is it a converted shed? A tiny home? An estate?


27 posted on 11/18/2022 3:01:24 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: FreeReign

None of that matters, the weight of snow is fairly consistent, lake affect just means the snow developed by cold air passing over a lake as opposed to moving in a storm over land.


28 posted on 11/18/2022 3:01:25 PM PST by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: Libloather
only 8.17 years left

Does that take into consideration Daylight saving time?

29 posted on 11/18/2022 3:01:49 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Libloather

Guy driving his Snow Plow live on Youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDbFa_Vko8o


30 posted on 11/18/2022 3:05:54 PM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Libloather

So which is heavier: A pound of snow or a pound of BS?

The whole country has been covered with the latter in regards to climate propaganda.


31 posted on 11/18/2022 3:06:11 PM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: exnavy; Chode

Same, snow belt just south of Gaylord. East Jordan and Petos key got several feet.
We never make the news in northern MI for the same stuff that gets drama in other states.


32 posted on 11/18/2022 3:11:08 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Libloather

Roof snow removal in Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRbsso-XtpY


33 posted on 11/18/2022 3:12:41 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Libloather

Never been in Buffalo. Are you folks there happy about the shortage of fossil fuels or would you like to receive a tanker full of nasty fuel oil?


34 posted on 11/18/2022 3:13:45 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: exnavy

west new york... just out of the major lake effect, thank God


35 posted on 11/18/2022 3:14:55 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: MarMema

yup... you got it worse than me


36 posted on 11/18/2022 3:16:31 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: MarMema

If you had a professional hockey team, like the Buffalo Sabres, you’d get more attention for your snow.


37 posted on 11/18/2022 3:16:39 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,565,103 live users on Truth Social)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Buy an EV. It will catch fire and melt the snow. Problem solved.


38 posted on 11/18/2022 3:17:37 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Don’t let that snowplow service do your house roof.


39 posted on 11/18/2022 3:17:44 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Repeal The 17th

“Depends on the size of the roof.”

WAY too hard of a concept for those cretins educated in public schools.


40 posted on 11/18/2022 3:22:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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