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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: Paul R.

Vid from Reed Timmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7dPvSXkeOE

Cool time lapse sat view of lightning from 1:30 to 1:38.


81 posted on 11/19/2022 8:45:17 AM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Libloather

“Live vid” from Reed Timmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIHH-7sBfg


82 posted on 11/19/2022 8:53:54 AM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Paul R.

That’s just above me a couple hours - we got nothing but an inch or so - but very cold. An hour and half below me got whitehout as well.


83 posted on 11/19/2022 11:16:06 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Chode

Not stopping either. Ugh.


84 posted on 11/19/2022 11:59:53 AM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: MarMema

did the nfl move the game too soon?


85 posted on 11/19/2022 1:01:42 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: caww

I just got back home & saw that Orchard Park, NY had 77” on the ground as of 7 am this morning. Wow!

And they have ~10” more in the forecast...

(It’s just cold & windy here in the Mid-South — actually slightly colder than Chicago, last night, but that flipped back to more normal this afternoon - colder there - then we should tie again tonight. Interesting patterns...)


86 posted on 11/19/2022 1:57:15 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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87 posted on 11/20/2022 5:42:55 AM PST by Texan4Life
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To: Gay State Conservative

Get your electric snowblowers and electric plows charged up now! I’m sure all those new EV vehicles can deal with this.


88 posted on 11/20/2022 6:15:08 AM PST by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
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