TugHillMatt

It brings us into the band a bit as it shifts back south. Just to prepare you...in events like this, the band could sit to your north for hours and hours while you agonizingly wait for a wind shift to push it south. Lake effect takes LOTS of patience.

Looks like us N. Cuse guys get, I am guessing, maybe 3 to 6 inches tomorrow night. Then the band moves north and pounds Wolfie and tombo on Monday. Then round two for the Cuse guys Monday night as the NW winds kick in. Rochester should get in on this too at times. Oh, how I would love for this one to come true:

First double digit event of the season here in NW Onondaga yesterday. It could have been a warning rather than advisory, but the break in between two periods made it pretty manageable. 6 inches in the morning, then a break in the afternoon, then an additional 4 inches last night for a total of 10 inches. I went for a nice long Jebwalk and could see the stars with snow still gently falling.

Boo, the Rgem took N. Onondaga out of the game.

I disagree (not upset...lol). This is especially true if wind is involved. I recall several ice storms with around a quarter to half inch of freezing rain when I was growing up that caused damage...especially when wind was involved. It doesn't look like a great setup for sleet on Sunday, so I think it will be either rain, wet snow, or freezing rain. Local mets don't seem too impressed with Sunday or our lake effect possibilities for the beginning of the week. Hopefully we can get a bit more of a northerly component to the wind so the southern lakeshore and weenie snowbelt can get involved. Fulton is looking real good.

So when you think about it...Buffalo actually might average more snow than Rochester if you melt it down to precip. totals. lol

What's going on with you this week?

Yeah, I thought it might be even higher than that. Rochester really gets the high ratio stuff with those northerly winds or teakettle events.

Check out that narrow lake effect band! It's a multi-lake connection:

Rgem has us mostly as light snow on Sunday now...but whoa, check out the NAM! This would be nearly a half inch of freezing rain in the Syracuse area and ski towns of the Southern Tier. Perhaps it's some sleet..either way, it's probably well overdone.

What a cutoff to the north, as Blue Moon reported like an inch or so in Oswego.

Nice! SCIENCE here... Life Science, Agricultural Science, and Environmental Science are my jam...with a big side of meteorology.

Indeed! For the winter that I lived on the Southern Tug, snow retention was so much better than most other places. The north side of the Tug has the worst retention in that area, as the south winds downslope and warm it quickly. Carthage to Copenhagen and sometimes Barnes Corners can lose snowpack pretty quickly.

Yep! Whatever it was...it was an inflated total by 10 inches. Maybe even 15.

All I really care about...is how much Chester County got.

Thanks! I am an educator, so I love talking about things and helping others/showing hospitality. Wolfie shared a great post as well in reference to the cloud tops. It's quite rare to have a day where the highs don't get above 0. Maaaybe single digits. Days with highs in the teens are more common in the colder "cold outbreaks" of winter. Many in Upstate New York prefer those days in the 20s with a calm wind and fresh snow. Perfect for outdoor recreation! Low temps will usually fall below zero several times in a winter.

Congrats on your snowfall, NYC metro and Long Island crew! I enjoyed checking out the pictures of your city decked in snow.

Radarscope is probably one of the best options for that. It's something you'll just have to accept about living here. When the temps get into the teens like this, precip. often doesn't show up on the radars. They have trouble picking up on the limited moisture in the cold air (that is still enough to produce for us.) Also, not sure if you saw my post earlier, we're on the fringes of the 3 different radar areas in Upstate NY, so sometimes it appears as a black hole of no precip. no matter what radar you look at. Still enjoying watching the flakes fall here as well.

So true! That's the stuff that melts in a heartbeat as the sun's rays incinerate it. haha

Thanks! With Sunday hopefully being a very short warmup, I think this one will stay around much longer than the good one from before Thanksgiving. I didn't think we would get more with this event, but it's looking like it. Definitely an overperformer if one goes by NWS forecast. @LakeEffectKingdid a great job with this one!

It's quite common for lake effect, especially at these temps, to be 20:1. Welcome to the land of lake effect FLUFF!

So excited for you as you experience a lake effect event for the first time. The size of the dendrites in these bands are one of my favorite things. Still pounding here on the NW side.

Pounding snow again for the past hour. Approaching double digits!

Looks like the bands are starting to move south a bit again with a shift of the wind back to NW.

I think you're going to be the jackpot today. Sun has been out here for the past hour with flurries. Wind is too westerly.