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Erie, Pennsylvania, Smashes State Snowfall Record With Over 50 Inches of Snow Since Christmas Eve
The Weather Channel ^ | Dec 26 2017 01:30 PM | Jonathan Erdman

Posted on 12/26/2017 1:37:47 PM PST by daniel1212

A stationary lake-effect snowband off Lake Erie dumped an incredible 34 inches of snow at Erie Airport on Christmas Day alone, quadrupling their previous record snowiest Christmas Day - 8.1 inches in 2002 - as well as smashing their all-time snowiest single day on record by over a foot - 20 inches on Nov. 11, 1956.

That heavy snow continued into Tuesday, bringing their storm total since 7 p.m. EST Christmas Eve to an incredible 56.5 inches of snow - just over 4.5 feet - in 42 hours.

This prolific event shattered all previous multi-day snowfall records in Erie dating to 1893, according to the National Weather Service office in Cleveland, including:

Two-day snowfall: 26.7 inches (Nov. 24-25, 1950; the "Great Appalachian Storm") Three-day snowfall: 30.2 inches (Dec. 29-31, 2002) Seven-day snowfall: 39.8 inches (Dec. 27, 2001 - Jan. 2, 2002) 13-day snowfall: 52.8 inches (Dec. 31, 1998 - Jan. 12, 1999)

Needless to say, the 92 inches of snow so far in December is the city's snowiest single month on record, crushing the previous record of 66.9 inches in December 1989.


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: pennsylvania; predictions; snowevent; snowfall; weather
As for predictions

Pennsylvania Real-Time News Posted October 05, 2017 at 06:30 AM | Updated October 05, 2017 at 07:27 AM

December will be a few degrees warmer than normal, hovering in the mid-to-high 40s, according to AccuWeather.

“December will be fairly mild,” Boston said. “You might get some storms with snow, but probably more rain.”

OK, so what about a white Christmas? [the Harrisburg area]

“There’s a lower-than-average chance of a white Christmas, but it can get stormy,” Boston said.

So, there’s still a chance?

“There’s less than a 1-in-3 chance,” he said. “It’s not out of the question, but odds favor February and possible even March for snow.”...

Erie, where it’s not unusual to see heavy snow in November, is expected to get more lake-effect snow this year. - http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/10/snow_ice_rain_coming_to_pa_acc.html

1 posted on 12/26/2017 1:37:48 PM PST by daniel1212
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To: daniel1212

I hope algore is buried under all that glowbull warming..I mean snow.


2 posted on 12/26/2017 1:39:31 PM PST by beergarden
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To: daniel1212

My wife’s family lives in the Akron, OH area and we’ve made the drive on I-90 through Erie many a time and have driven through some wicked snow storms, but at 50 inches, this one takes the cake! Be careful of the lake effect snow driving along Lake Erie and also the eastern end of Lake Ontario!


3 posted on 12/26/2017 1:41:35 PM PST by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: rochester_veteran

The Finger lakes region of New York also gets hammered with lake affect snows at times.


4 posted on 12/26/2017 1:43:36 PM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: daniel1212
Then there is the 3 month National Weather Service predictions which I never remember them predicting lower than average temps for the NE, and once for average, as its almost consistently predicting above average temps, as

Nov-Dec-Jan 2018-19, made Dec. 21 http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=11

See see here. http://whdh.com/weather/

5 posted on 12/26/2017 1:45:53 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Our first winter in New Hampshire my wife was pregnant and I always had to keep the driveway open in case we needed to make a quick dash to the hospital. It snowed 48 inches in January. My daughter was born on Feb 1. It felt like I was shoveling nonstop for the entire month.

Nex winter I had a Ford F350 with an 8 foot Fisher plow on the front. I learned my lesson.


6 posted on 12/26/2017 1:50:40 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: daniel1212

I’m from Erie. I fish there visit there and party there. But I still say they only have two seasons. Winter and the 4th of July.


7 posted on 12/26/2017 1:52:15 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: headstamp 2
The Finger lakes region of New York also gets hammered with lake affect snows at times.

Warsaw in Wyoming County is getting nailed and also Chautauqua and southern Erie Counties!

Wyoming County Severe Watches & Warnings

8 posted on 12/26/2017 1:52:54 PM PST by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Our first winter in New Hampshire my wife was pregnant and I always had to keep the driveway open in case we needed to make a quick dash to the hospital. It snowed 48 inches in January. My daughter was born on Feb 1. It felt like I was shoveling nonstop for the entire month. Nex winter I had a Ford F350 with an 8 foot Fisher plow on the front. I learned my lesson.

And in 2015 you must have made some money!

9 posted on 12/26/2017 2:00:27 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Mrs. BN & our daughter’s family spent 16 hours driving back from Vermont to Cleveland area on Friday AM/Saturday AM through a miserable snowstorm. Thankfully, they were not two days later!

Right now it’s 16 degrees, going down to 8 tonight. Last night the wind chill was minus 5.

Tell me again what’s wrong with ‘Global Warming’?


10 posted on 12/26/2017 2:01:20 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: BwanaNdege

I live smack dab between Cleveland and Akron, in a secondary snowbelt. We didn’t get one flake today!


11 posted on 12/26/2017 2:14:13 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (NOT TITO)
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To: BwanaNdege

Well, the liberals changed the name of global warming to climate change, because now they have decided that extreme weather of any kind is due to global warming/climate change, not just warmer weather.

Extreme snow is part of global warming, who knew?

The liberals have set up this discussion, so that any weather event can be blamed on global warming.


12 posted on 12/26/2017 2:22:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: daniel1212
Doesn't lake effect snow depend on the Great Lakes not being frozen? Thus, the warm autumn did contribute to massive snow when the temp cooled down and a front moved through. But now, it has gotten massively cold and the Great Lakes should freeze. That should cut off the fuel for humongous lake effect snowstorms after a few more days of frigid cold.

What we're getting now is certainly not global warming. It's weird weather variations. The trees had leaves around here until the week after Thanksgiving! (metro Cleveland)

13 posted on 12/26/2017 2:25:07 PM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: daniel1212

Obviously it proves global warming, because milder and milder winters until eventually snow is a memory leads to more snowfall.
/ Obvious sarc


14 posted on 12/26/2017 3:19:57 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: grania

Doesn’t lake effect snow depend on the Great Lakes not being frozen?


Interesting question got me to looking on the internet for an answer. Looks like once frozen, lake effect snow is reduced. A storm can’t pull in additional moisture from the frozen surface to contribute to the snowfall. The temperature differential between the land and the lake is also reduced once the surface is frozen, so you no longer have a relatively warmer front running into colder land triggering precipitation.

https://www.almanac.com/blog/weather-blog/frozen-great-lake-story


15 posted on 12/26/2017 3:21:52 PM PST by Flick Lives (https://goo.gl/GxGKQh)
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To: Flick Lives

The moisture source that builds glaciers. Warm surface waters and cold air from the north. Fire and ice is coming. That is how the ice age returns. We were at freezing today with 100 % humidity.


16 posted on 12/26/2017 6:34:33 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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17 posted on 12/26/2017 6:46:18 PM PST by xp38
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To: BwanaNdege

Yes, night temps here for next 7 days range from 2 to 10, while the NWS predicted warmer than normal.


18 posted on 12/26/2017 8:14:27 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Darksheare

It seems what can be blamed on AGW is extensive, and no dissent is to be tolerated.


19 posted on 12/26/2017 8:16:50 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

True.
Less snow or more snow, higher temps, lower temps, it all gets blamed on global warming.
And there are people who want dissenting thinking banned, and the thought criminals imprisoned or executed.


20 posted on 12/26/2017 8:22:54 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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