So do I.
I was laughing about it today.
This is what happens when you have a gorgeous warm fall and the lakes do not have the chance to cool off before the cold air comes down out of Canada.
Earlier in the fall, I told my sister and brother to watch out for this exact thing to happen and be ready with whatever they needed for groceries for the winter, because this would make it a tough one. Fortunately, they borh had the sense to listen.
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
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.