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Posted on 12/01/2024 3:12:14 AM PST by george76
The weather outside will soon be frightful.
Upstate New York could be facing up to 6 feet of “extreme” snow as the city braces for the coldest temperatures yet this season.
Every morning is going to be essentially below freezing for the next, at least 10 days, maybe two weeks,” Fox Weather meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post Saturday. “And our afternoon highs are going to be in the low to mid-40s every day as well for this entire week.
“Looking long term to the start of next weekend, we may not even get out of the 30s,”
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The weather pattern is not common, the meteorologist continued.
“It’s called a ‘clipper’ and we haven’t had one in quite a while,” he said. The storm features “an atomic burst of rain and snow that kind of clips the Northeast and portions of the Great Lakes … there’s a chance we may see some flakes fly in the city sometime Wednesday.”
Parts of Upstate are already dealing with Day 2 of what could be five days of disastrous amounts of snowfall.
Snowfall totals in Harrisburg, New York, about 20 miles southeast of Watertown, already neared 3 feet, and “it’s only going to go up,” Braud said. “It’s about a five-day event. This is only going to get worse,”
The extreme lake-effect snow is also affecting parts of Pennsylvania, northeast Ohio and Michigan.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It’s December and Buffalo always gets a lot of snow.
There should be a place to put that, if it can captured in time. A mile high mound.
From Quora post: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-mind-blowing-photos-you-have-seen/answer/Alex-Ferman-5
Oh no. Quick, send me more global warming please. And more illegals to help shovel.
It's snow.
It's Upstate NY.
Extreme it's not.
Not common but certainly not out of the usual.
I live in New York.
One day, about two or three years ago, driving on my way home, I decided to stop by at my local supermarket to buy just a few items for the house, such as a couple loaves of bread.
When I got into the parking lot, the lot was packed. I have never seen it filled up like that before. And it was a weekday afternoon. Normally the parking lot gets filled up on a Saturday or Sunday. Not a weekday. It took me a little bit of driving around the parking lot before I managed to find a vacant spot.
After parking, I then looked for a shopping cart outside the store. Not a one was available. So, I go into the store without a shopping cart, hoping I can find a basket inside. As I enter the store, it was packed beyond belief. I’ve never seen it so filled up with so many people before or since. The store had as many cash registers opened as they possibly could and each line for each register was like a mile long. I’m thinking, “what’s going on here?”
Anyways, I proceed to try to do my shopping. And many of the shelves are almost empty. I went to the bread aisle to grab a couple of loaves as planned. But no full loaves were there. The only loaf of bread I could get was a lone small, half sized loaf of wonder bread. I got the few items I meant to buy and then chose a checkout line to stand in. It took over 40 minutes before it was my turn to check out and pay for my items.
While waiting on line, I overheard a few of the other shoppers muttering something about a snowstorm coming. Then it dawned on me why the supermarket was packed. I hadn’t been paying any attention to the news or the weather, so up until then I was unaware that we were expecting a huge snowstorm. I had hoped I had enough food at home to ride it out.
After getting home from the supermarket, I promptly checked on the news to see any weather reports. Indeed, a big snow storm was expected the very next day.
Next morning came and it was only a light dusting of snow. Not even a quarter of an inch. And then by the afternoon it had mostly melted away!
It’s not new. *Alberta Clipper* has been used for YEARS.
A nor’easter is not an Alberta Clipper.
An Alberta Clipper is a cold air mass coming down out of Canada, often pretty far south. It doesn’t always give snow but always very cold air.
A nor’easter is a east coast low that develops usually around FL and comes up the coast and the wind direction around the storm is what pulls in the cold air to create the storms and give us the snow.
This should have come as no surprise to ANYONE, considering the warm, sunny fall weather we had. The lakes never got a chance to cool off as they usually do.
This was entirely predictable.
Basically, but this lake effect event has the potential to cover quite a bit of territory.
Basically, but this lake effect event has the potential to cover quite a bit of territory.
Heh, after surviving the Blizzard of ‘77, you can manage anything.
Wait a minute. It can’t be right.
Globull scientists have been saying snowing is the thing of the past. https://www.climatedepot.com/2018/01/04/flashback-2000-snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-snow-is-uk-independent/
Yep - I grew up in Rochester, NY right on the shore of central lake Ontario - we called it “lake-effect” snow storms....
“Isn’t “upstate New York” everything but NYC?”
For people who live in NYC anything north and west of Westchester County is “upstate”.
To get to the areas of deep snow is probably a 300 mile drive.
Lol.
Did you cheat and read the article?
“The storm features “an atomic burst of rain and snow that kind of clips the Northeast and portions of the Great Lakes”
No worries. Global warming should melt it soon according to climate idiots.
They’re into naming snowstorms now. What next? naming rainstorms? windstorms? individual droplets of rain or snow?
Watertown NY always has extreme amounts of snow - much more than Buffalo. Buffalo whines more. ;-P
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