That’s very interesting.
Here in CNY we don’t hear much about that. We have our own local jargon.
Usually the edge of the nor’easter just clips us and we don’t see a lot from it. However, in our case the further west the storm goes the more snow we usually get.
CNY varies quite a bit.
Down by Binghamton, they tend to get more rain.
Up by Watertown more snow.
However, Syracuse is in that perfect spot in between. Far enough south to get the maximum amount of moisture and far enough north so that it’s cold enough that we usually get snow. So Syracuse gets the maximum storm totals out of the nor’easters.
Now, the following day, as the storm pulls off the coast, the winds swing around and come out of the north and across Lake Ontario to give us a good shot of lake effect snow.
Usually, the lake effect hits north as the winds are usually out of the west. However the northerly winds bring it much further south and we get what our NWS refers to as the classic one two punch.
Hit by the nor’easter the first day, and the clobbered by the lake effect the second.
That happened in the Blizzard of ‘93 and the lake effect DOUBLED the storm total for the whole event north of Syracuse. Two to three feet of snow from each one.