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Historic Lake Effect Snowstorm


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Honest question: How do they remove that much snow? Physically, how can they have enough front end loaders to clear the roads and dump it somewhere within a week?

I'll pay them to bring it down here and dump it in Fairfield. There probably is enough snow to give the entire town a solid 6 inches.

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Honest question: How do they remove that much snow? Physically, how can they have enough front end loaders to clear the roads and dump it somewhere within a week?

 

Friend of mine posted this on Facebook, she lives in South Buffalo. The chain broke on the front end loader trying to pull the snow plow out of a drift:

 

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY

331 PM EST TUE NOV 18 2014

NYZ010>012-019-020-085-182200-

CATTARAUGUS NY-CHAUTAUQUA NY-ERIE NY-GENESEE NY-WYOMING NY-

331 PM EST TUE NOV 18 2014

...INTENSE LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE SOUTHERN

HALF OF THE BUFFALO METRO AREA...

* AT 329 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A

LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SNOWFALL RATES OF 4

INCHES PER HOUR OR MORE...AND VISIBILITY NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. THE

SHARP NORTHERN EDGE OF THIS LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND EXTENDS FROM

SOUTH BUFFALO TO DEPEW AND EASTWARD TOWARDS DARIEN AND ALEXANDER.

THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE BAND IS HUGGING THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY

SHORELINE THEN EXTENDING INLAND ACROSS FAR NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA

COUNTY...THE BOSTON HILLS...AND WYOMING COUNTY.

TRAVEL WITHIN THE MOST INTENSE PORTION OF THIS BAND FROM SOUTH

BUFFALO INTO THE NEARBY SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SUBURBS IS IMPOSSIBLE.

LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORT ALL ROADS ARE IMPASSABLE AND CLOGGED WITH

SNOW AND STUCK VEHICLES. DO NOT VENTURE OUT WITHIN THIS AREA. IF YOU

LIVE NORTH OR SOUTH OF THE BAND OF SNOW DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE INTO

THE AFFECTED AREAS...YOU WILL BECOME TRAPPED.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND INCLUDE...

SOUTH BUFFALO...

LANCASTER...

DEPEW...

ALL OF THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF BUFFALO...

ATTICA...

WARSAW...

ALEXANDER...

PAVILION...

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Could this break any 24 hour snowfall records?

 

24 hour US record is from Colorado, 75.8". It was exceeded by Montague on the Tug Hill in NY (77" I believe), but that record was not considered official by the NWS due to the way it was measured I read. These totals are high, but I don't think they'll be quite that high.

 

Edit: just read that Adams, NY holds the official NY record at 68".

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HRRR and RAP models continue to insist that the heavy snow band should start its southward migration towards the Boston Hills and points south within the next hour or two.  Radar loops, however, continue to tell another story with the firehose of snow coming off of Lake Erie and that band doesn't seem to be budging.  Oh, also both HRRR and RAP still bring that band back to the north very late tonight into tomorrow morning all the way north through metro Buffalo and the northtowns.  

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HRRR and RAP models continue to insist that the heavy snow band should start its southward migration towards the Boston Hills and points south within the next hour or two.  Radar loops, however, continue to tell another story with the firehose of snow coming off of Lake Erie and that band doesn't seem to be budging.  Oh, also both HRRR and RAP still bring that band back to the north very late tonight into tomorrow morning all the way north through metro Buffalo and the northtowns.  

 

Have you looked at round 2 yet? :mapsnow:

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