Posted on 11/20/2014 12:14:40 PM PST by kosciusko51
I have a special place in my heart for lake effect snow. Living in Sault, Michigan as a teenager is what got me interested in weather and started me down my career path.
But it’s hard to compete with what Buffalo, New York gets for lake effect snow. Over six feet of snow fell in some areas on the south side of town in the last 48 hours, most of it in a 24 hour period.
The all-time U.S. record for a 24 hour snowfall is 76 inches in Silver Lake, Colorado way back in 1921, and it is possible this was exceeded yesterday. We will have to wait and see what NOAA decides.
The reason why Buffalo gets pounded so bad is the shape of Lake Erie…long and narrow, so a cold wind blowing down its length generates a single, intense snow band. You are either in it or out of it. Driving down the road, you can be in sunshine one minute, and in white-out conditions the next. This pair of pictures taken at the same time only 5 miles apart in Buffalo during the storm illustrates the fickle nature of lake effect storms.
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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.
This can all either be blamed on Global Warming or G.W.Bush
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.
Almost seems like a tornado.
They usually get rough snowfalls but this probably will break the record...
Everytime I get tempted to move back up North, I’m reminded why I don’t.
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....
Yes it is. And the weight that stadium roof is about to have on it, is daunting.
Oh, luckily there isn’t a roof. Saw the mound and thought it was a dimple in a roof.
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.
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.
That had to have been freaky!
We get oodles of rain here...more than the state of Washington actually!
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