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17.5" for the event so far. Nothing fell during the day yesterday (Friday), but 7.5" overnight thru 8:45am this morning. Heading out of town now and it is snowing at a heavy clip. Think I am going to miss out on a good chunk of snow the next 9 or so days. Hope you all get lots of the white stuff. Good luck!

Hello all, As of 10pm, 7.5" so far in snowbelt of NWPA. Snowing at a nice clip now, maybe 1" per hour. Hope it keeps up. Quick question before my Christmas gift to everyone - how do you access / change your signature on this newer board version? Apparently, I do not possess the mental acumen to figure it out... Anyway, my gift to you all you fine NEOH and WNY snow enthusiasts. I am going out of town to Florida Sat. 12/10 until Tues 12/20 - therefore I am certain you guys will get blitzed with LES and maybe even a synoptic event whilst I am away - no doubt in my mind. Enjoy!

2.0" on the button IMBY. Most likely to add more tonight into tomorrow and possibly Sunday night. Great stuff for hockey playoffs this weekend (Go Otters!), but not so much for setting up an amusement park...

Huron band finally pushed overhead around 12:30pm. Looked like it was snowing at a good clip last couple hours, but went out to measure and only had 1.5" or so. Woeful flake size. However, the snowfall today has pushed me over the 100" mark, so that's a plus. Only 6.9" to go to pass the dreadful 2011-2012 winter.

3.1" in about 45 minutes when the squall moved thru last night. I saw a social media picture from Mt. Pleasant Ski Resort in Edinboro last night, about 5 miles to my east / south, claiming 6" in a half hour - not sure about that. Then unfortunately the LES was pretty much a no show. 1.0" overnight, 4.1" total. My least favorite weather currently - cold, dry, breezy.

Pretty good rip city at the moment. 3" per hour maybe, very nice out.

Thanks. Hope it yields some decent totals and nice rates.

1.2" today, 12.4" event total. On to the Friday-Saturday action. Perhaps even some synoptic activity in the form of snow early next week...

Rather pedestrian event here given the duration, 11.2" total as of 7:30am. 5.0" fell Tuesday night into Wednesday, 3.8" fell yesterday and 2.4" overnight. Not expecting much today, very weak returns on our local jet doppler radar. Light snow with tiny flake size at the moment.

As of 7:30am, 5.0" here as well since about 6pm last night. I echo the good start sentiment.

2.6" overnight. Snow+ at the moment IMBY, prob 5" for "event". Posters in western new York thread are liking the possibility of extended LES event next week after warmup. Maybe we can cash in...

Another solid snowfall overnight of 7.1", making a nice tidy sum of 23.0" total since noon-ish on Sunday.

Little overzealous on the amount I perceived we received today. Total for storm thus far: 15.9" = 2.6 yesterday + 8.5 overnight + 4.8 today. Snow has pretty much stopped at the moment, but bands off to my west right at the shoreline seem to want to push back in...hope so

Will give an accurate updated report this evening. Got 3" yesterday and 9" overnight. When I left this morning @ 7:45ish, was snowing around 2+" an hour. Been checking the weather cam today at the university and has been snowing all day. I am north and west of the school at higher elevation, so usually get more. My wife cleared the driveway again at 12ish, so maybe we r pushing 20"...?

Ended up with 14.3" total combined w/ clipper plus LES. Was ripping quite nicely last night from 9pm ish thru very early this morning. Wound down completely IMBY by 11am. I work right up along the lake just west of Erie and they did not get much today and nothing to speak of last night. Fingers crossed for upcoming chances...

Tough to measure with the wind, but "event #1" measured just under 6" imby as of 4am this morning, before band skirted off quickly north and then off shore. The fact that our Lakeshore is still under a warning in most certainly not warranted IMO. I'm confused as to BUF vs CLE as what to expect with LES "event #2". The 10:50 AFD our of Buffalo has the following: TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...LAKE PARAMETERS BECOME INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOWS SOUTHEAST OF THE LAKES IN A GENERAL 280-290 FLOW REGIME. 850 MB TEMPERATURES DROPPING TO NEAR -18C WILL CERTAINLY GENERATE EXTREME OVER-LAKE INSTABILITY WITH LAKE INDUCED EQUILIBRIUM LEVELS NEARING 18K FEET. MODEL SOUNDINGS KEEP THE DENDRITIC GROWTH ZONE PEGGED WITHIN THE CLOUD LAYER WHICH WILL LIKELY YIELD SNOWFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES PER HOURS FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR AREAS SOUTHEAST OF THE LAKES DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. Several counties southeast of Lake Ontario are under the LES Watch and well as the usual suspects of Chatauqua and Cattaraugus counties under the Watch off Erie with "Heavy Snow" in the point & click for areas well south and east of the lake. Past experience would lead me to believe in such situations Erie & Crawford county in PA and the typical counties in OH would be under the Watch at this point. I would also think State College would put Warren County PA under a Watch as well. Moreover, the Watch snowfall totals out of Cleveland of 5 to 8" are less than impressive. I assume the winds can be different direction off of Erie vs Ontario, but can they be that different at toward either end of Lake Erie? I was thinking that the next couple of days could yield decent totals, heck my point & click spits out over 20" on the high side of the numbers. We shall see...

It's been snowing "more" today & tonight IMBY than when we were under the LES Advisory yesterday afternoon and thru late last night, when we effectively got none (was 0.3" to be exact). About 3.0" since this very early this morning, snowing at a moderate clip at the moment.

I go back and forth between this thread and the Upstate NY/North Country thread as I am "in between" locations, but they have posted the AFD from BUF about the upcoming LES potential. A long ways out and trying not to be a debbie-downer, but they are saying the upcoming pattern next week mirrors certain points during past two winters with the a trough near James Bay and a ridge over the west (paraphrasing) that will likely lead to an extended LES event with...a westerly or south westerly flow. Wouldn't that be a kick...

Good call as per usual OHweather. Turned out to be a nice event after my petulant post (sick as a dog and grinch like). Had 2" from 6pm till midnight, 8" overnight till about 8:30am, then 3" till shutdown mid afternoon - a nice round total of 13.0" I even think our southern snowbelt did better than the eastern areas this time round - still gonna move out there though...

Seems it has been a wsw wind direction with LES for about 3 winters in a row. Time to relocate about 15 miles east&north, just inside the PA line by peek n peak. Just not getting my desired snowfall in the Edinboro area.

3" imby. Sun out, radar looks less than impressive. No banner LES events here for a couple winters now - lots of cold air "wasted", hope that will change this winter.

Solid 1/2" when i just got home. Grass whitening a bit, also on trees. Great weather for getting our amusement park ready to open and completion of new wave pool project...

Great way of putting it OHweather; eastward over in my neck of the woods, we have "fluffed out" 4 inches from early evening yesterday thru now, with light snow still falling. It is indeed whisper-light snowfall, will look both pretty and prettty winter-like come daybreak.

Yep, tough measuring for sure, winds way up. 3.4" since last, storm total of 6.9" as of 3pm.

3.6" as of 10am. Actually quite nice out there as of now, mod snow, little wind, 23 degrees. Cleared the deck & grill for steaks this evening, may be a little different weather story by then...