That Epic, Fickle, Shovel-off-to-Buffalo Snow: An All-Time U.S. Record?

Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. ^ | November 20th, 2014 | Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

[DoughtyOne]

I was at Mammoth, California one time when they had twelve feet of snow on the ground. I had never seen anything like it.

It’s like two different towns, summer to winter there.

If you only saw it in the winter, you’d never know what the place was like during the rest of the year.

It’s kind of magical visiting. Not sure I’d like to live through that.

I’m sure you folks go through the same dynamic.

[caww]

This one of the snow wall is pretty stunning with the stadium in site

[RBStealth]

This can all either be blamed on Global Warming or G.W.Bush

[caww]

Interesting is to be there as it rolls in I understand...one guy wrote and said one minute all was clear and the next a Major Blizzard within less than the block he was driving.

I’m nearer to the lower Erie belt but the jet stream always wobbles through here so we never know what we’re going to get....this time we got very little snow..but it’s plenty cold enough.

[dfwgator]

Almost seems like a tornado.

[caww]

They usually get rough snowfalls but this probably will break the record...

[cripplecreek]

There are plenty of places that get far more snow. That one just happens to have a city in the middle of it.

[caww]

Aerial shot over the wall cloud as it was traveling in

[caww]

They have the National Guard and local military people helping to get the snow off roofs now....everybody's in a call to action mode before the next storm comes in....check this out and it's still snowing!!

[dfwgator]

Everytime I get tempted to move back up North, I’m reminded why I don’t.

[caww]

Reminds me of the sand storms that come in out west or in the M.E...just sand instead of snow

[Sacajaweau]

It was all about the farmland.

The roads were so poor with ruts and debris, winter was sometimes a blessing. The sleigh was a wonderful invention.

Watching the new inventions come to light...how exciting.....simple things like lightening rods for their barns....the sewing machine....farm equipment....the telegraph....the Erie Canal...imagine....

[DoughtyOne]

Yes it is. And the weight that stadium roof is about to have on it, is daunting.

[DoughtyOne]

Oh, luckily there isn’t a roof. Saw the mound and thought it was a dimple in a roof.

[caww]

Note the basketball net!....

[JeanLM]

If the Erie canal had not been built there would be no Buffalo. The canal opened up the west but for furs; not farm land.

[caww]

LOL....I think they tired to get the stadium cleaned out for the game...but since three more feet there and on it's way..that's a not now!

[DoughtyOne]

I’ve never been in that situation with snow. I have been with rain.

On the farm as a child, I could see the rain coming from half a mile away. A wall of it would coming and we scrambled sometimes to get ready for it.

One day at school when I was about ten, a rain cloud stalled over our small school. The rain literally fell there for ten minutes from one spot on, while right up to it there wasn’t any rain at all. I had never seen that before, and haven’t since.

You could walk right into and out of the rain.

At the same school I once saw snow flakes/clumps/whatever fall that were approximately the same size as a chicken’s egg.

[caww]

Wouldn't want to have to shovel all that off the roof....and to think three more feet is coming!

[caww]

That had to have been freaky!

We get oodles of rain here...more than the state of Washington actually!