champy Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Cool, I had the same idea. Shot above Skaneateles from this morning: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Flew over Lake Erie yesterday evening. Quite a bit of open water in the western basin and just offshore from about Mentor to the N and W. A lot of cracks and visible slush in the western third. Fog was noticeable and thick along the south shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrmax Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I'm down to 16" snow depth on average. Not bad. Looks like it'll slowly go away instead of a fast meltoff. Which is good. Long range not looking all that warm but mid/late March sun will do it's work with seasonable temps in the offing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeEffectKing Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Nice clear shot of L. Ontario yesterday....when toggling vs. other images from the last few days, there is a discernible shrinking/ripening of the ice pack on the east end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coh Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Checked the snowpack today, averaging about 10". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ayuud11 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 It's currently 60F on Buffalo's west side! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 We were sunny and low 50s yesterday here. It felt fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rochesterdave Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 So phase 7 going strong in up coming weeks. Lotsa positive signals in what is typically WNY's most active synoptic winter month. I'm hanging it out there- we WILL have another interesting scenario. Hope it's cold enough for all snow at the lower elevations and western zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rochesterdave Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Walked thru a field in Pittsford NY today, just South East of Rochester by about 7 miles. And the snow is still 12" plus. Unbelievable winter we have been having! And the Rochester official stats are really not representative of what is on the ground, or what has fallen thruout the season. I hope the NWS takes a serious review of the situation. In all honesty, there was still 12" on the ground. I'm not sure what the official Rochester number was today- but I distrust it. Should of taken a pic. It is melting super slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 The ROC Climate Summary for today went up at 0305, and shows a snow depth of 0, down from 8 inches on Saturday morning and 15 a week ago. Maybe that's a data entry error, although it has been over freezing there for the last 40+ hours with high dewpoints and a good wind, all of which mean rapid pack death. And pack loss isn't linear - when there's a lot of >32F water soaked up in a snowpack, the rate of loss increases considerably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 I tend to agree that something is fishy with the ROC obs, even accounting for large differences between close by locations in LES events. ROC always seems to measure consistently lower than you would expect. But in the big picture, there is way more variation between Golden Snowball cities that is the result of the basically arbitrary location of the reporting stations. KBUF (airport) is probably in around the 30th percentile in the Buffalo Metro in terms of annual snowfall. Syracuse is a bit better located and seems more representative of the area, same with Erie. Like with Buffalo, there are parts of greater Rochester that get a lot more snow than the airport. And Cleveland, of course, isn't in the running although eastern areas of the Cleveland Metro get a lot of snow. All of this goes to show why the Golden Snowball is a joke. But I also wonder if the basic arbitrariness of the observation locations, and the fact that "macro" siting issues may be seen to account for far more variation than "micro" issues, makes them less inclined to look into Rochester obs in great detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY_WX Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Experiencing a return to winter here this morning albeit brief. It's been snowing moderately since I got up just before 7, the temperature right now is right at 32. As much as I love winter weather I feel that now that we're halfway through March we are fighting a losing battle. Unless we can manage a big event in the next couple of weeks these events like today are nice to look at and might temporarily freshen up the remaining glacial snowpack but as soon as it stops the sun vaporizes it. Next weekend the sun crosses the equator and will be over our half of the world. Time to start thinking warm weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 The GFS has a high of 19.5 degrees on March 23rd with snow...Going to take awhile before we get any real warmth around here. The average high temp in late March is in the upper 40s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Boston has beaten its all time snowiest season and looks to add quite a bit to that in the upcoming pattern. Wouldn't be surprised if they beat their total by a foot. Buffalo will never beat its all time total nearly 200" has to be an all timer from 77. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rochesterdave Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 The Rochester snowpack number is a complete joke. Yesterday I measured 12" in Pittsford which is 6 miles SE of the airport, today, I have 10" in Irondequoit which is 8 miles N of the airport. They just dont bother. It really is annoying. I hate when people exagerate snowfalls and totals, but I hate it even more when they diminish it. I saw a snowpack map today and it had this little hole of 4" of pack over the Rochester Airport. The meteorolgists in this town have been trying to get the NWS to get after whoever msrs that stuff, but with zero success over the last few years. Rest assured, KROC still has at least 8" of very thick, very cold, very dense snowpack. Some areas in fields have a 12-16". They must be measuring in an area affected by salt or tree cover. Disgusting. Science IS important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rochesterdave Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Hey Buffalo, never say never! lots of Bostonites never thought their last high could be beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNash Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I looked at the CLI report for ROC again. They updated the Sunday morning snoe depth number from 0 to 5. For Monday, that measurement is down to 2. So they are inconsistent with reporting, but I have noticed that they also run way under nearby cooperative observers during events. I get really annoyed when local news covers the stupid Golden Snowball because the official reporting locations are so arbitrary. But beyond that it has got to be frustrating to not be able to use their data set all as a reference source for local climate records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Looks like I really am going to have to go to the equator to get some real warmth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrmax Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Pretty robust NW-SE oriented lake band hammering CNY this am, esp ITH to BGM. Pretty much un/underforecasted from what I can tell. I wonder how many more of these we'll see in next cpl weeks. We still have 14" on ground here. Looks like we might make it into April with some amount of snowcover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coh Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 Looks like I really am going to have to go to the equator to get some real warmth. Extended ranges of last nights GFS suggest the cold holds on or even strengthens past day 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayuud11 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 April 5A Cold Spring Week 40°F / 23°F If you have plans this week to be in NYC, Boston, Hartford, Manchester or Providence temperatures will run below to much below average. There will be a brief warm up ahead of one main storm system during the week that will spread rain to most locations. A stripe of snow will be possible from upstate New York to Maine. After the storm, very cold air will head south. This will create lake effect rain and snow showers, some could be heavy around Buffalo. http://weather2020.com/forecasts/?v=0&l=14213 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 http://weather2020.com/forecasts/?v=0&l=14213 Who is that? Nice view of the lakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rochesterdave Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 les blossoming! as per Kingston Radar, Buf and Bing Radars. It started too fill fast at 11 pm. Hope it continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Been snowing all morning here sticking too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Bumble Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 View of frozen Lake Erie last Thursday. This is the northern end of the lake, facing west/southwest. Here's a shot of Grand Island, facing north across the Niagara River. Niagara Falls is barely visible in the top left, and Lake Ontario frames the far horizon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny rider Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 6F here this morning. We just had a lovely 4 day ski weekend in Vermont. I have now mentally checked out on winter. Finished. Kaput. Done. Ready to move on. I don't want to see the single digits (or lower) again until next fall. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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