BuffaloWeather Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 @SouthBuffaloSteve I think we have another shot at thunder snow with that next meso band in next 30 minutes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SouthBuffaloSteve Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: @SouthBuffaloSteve I think we have another shot at thunder snow with that next meso band in next 30 minutes. I might be a tad north. I tossed my roof top go pro on to record in case we get any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Snowing 2-3” an hour. Awesomeness. Snowing harder then it did all last night. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 Forecast of 1-2” to this… 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthBuffaloSteve Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, lakeeffectkid383 said: Snowing 2-3” an hour. Awesomeness. Snowing harder then it did all last night. Slowed down here at the moment but the change in flake size today has been incredible. Went from sugar grain type flakes to these massive parachute bombs in 3 hours time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie09 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 29 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: New 4pm map..Not much difference, just added an inch to kbuf lol Looks like they are riding the RGEM for the most part.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 Ended quicker than I thought 3.6" total season total 13.6" The one band had stronger rates than last night just awesome banding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: Ended quicker than I thought 3.6" total season total 13.6" The one band had stronger rates than last night just awesome banding. Still snowing here. 3.6” here as well. 12.1” since yesterday afternoon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 hours ago, SouthBuffaloSteve said: Nothing quite like the feel of standing on the edge of the lake in one of these wind storms. Watching 15’ waves smashing over the break wall just off in the distance. The howling of the gusts. Watching the lake level inch higher and higher as the Seiche effect sets in. Closest thing I’ll ever experience to intercepting a hurricane landfall so that’s why I enjoy it. I can understand that. It really is quite an experience to stand along one of the Great Lakes on one of those days. Like Dave said below, wind has always terrified me though...as I grew up on top of a hill and we had awful windstorms and trees coming down. The sound at night of the wind rushing through the trees... 3 hours ago, rochesterdave said: About 20 years ago I was nearly killed by falling trees. It happened while I was a grounds keeper at a big local cemetery. We’d had gusty winds which earlier in the morning had toppled a pine tree, so the whole team loaded up three trucks and a chipper to clean it up. The fallen tree was of a line of stately old pines which stretched along a road that went north to south. While the deafening chain saws ripped and chipper raged, the west winds started to pick up again. Sawdust and flying bits were striking us in the face as an enormous gust came that literally pushed us all back on our heels. At that same moment, three 75’ pines, from the row, bent, uprooted and slammed to the ground in near unison. Thump, thump, thump. They fell west to east across the road, between the trucks, the chippers and the men. We looked at each other with utter disbelief. The boss, realizing how stupid he’d been, shouted for us to “get the hell out of here”. Ive always hated the violence of the wind. It’s the only thing in nature that truly unsettles me. Plus, I can’t stand being without power and internet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 As far as trying to blame snow and winter on "most weather deaths" I can't help but wonder how many of those can be avoided if people didn't drive like MORONS. With wind, you can't really control anything, other than creating wind breaks. Snow? Stop driving like idiots and I imagine that death count would drop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rochesterdave Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Not the trend we need. Anybody say “omega”? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericjcrash Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Pixie dust. Another dusting after almost an inch this morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie09 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Starting to see a bit of enhanced precipitation now, some nice size dendrites.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sferic Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 From Channel 5 at 6PM, puts Cicero in 3-6 zone which is half what the NWS says As a newbie up here, who is more accurate since 5 miles can make a difference, even 2 miles like I saw yesterday. 3-6 for Cicero, I'll take it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Finished with 3.9” in Derby. 12.4” since yesterday afternoon. 18.8” on the season. What a wonderful surprise last 28 hours or so. Looks like mid winter (till Saturday haha). 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGM Blizzard Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 52 minutes ago, rochesterdave said: Not the trend we need. Anybody say “omega”? Like SyrMax said, if we are going to have well BN snowfall this season, might as well take it into the gutter and have some sizzle. Still safely ahead of the least snowiest winter of 2015-16 around here so far, but this slow start and a balmy December has me liking the odds of atleast a top 10 BN snowfall for BGM... possibly other sites as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortmax Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 57 minutes ago, rochesterdave said: Not the trend we need. Anybody say “omega”? If we can get that block to form a little further west, it might not be so bad... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 9, 2021 Author Share Posted December 9, 2021 1 hour ago, rochesterdave said: Not the trend we need. Anybody say “omega”? No sugar coating the long range from me. It looks real warm at least through christmas week. Maybe a new years reset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 About an inch and then it abruptly shut off. Looks like I might have to wait until the new year to see a synoptic system that actually drops more than an inch of snowfall. Thank goodness for that 4 hour overnight lake effect snowfall a couple days before Thanksgiving. Man, what a rough few years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 53 minutes ago, sferic said: From Channel 5 at 6PM, puts Cicero in 3-6 zone which is half what the NWS says As a newbie up here, who is more accurate since 5 miles can make a difference, even 2 miles like I saw yesterday. 3-6 for Cicero, I'll take it! Word of caution: Take the maps with a grain of salt. Along with more snow chances comes more disappointments. In good winters where cold air is plentiful and we're in a clipper track, sure, winter is definitely more exciting and many nice surprises. But...we've been in a run of bad years where cold and moisture has been lacking. I'm really hoping we can see a month this winter where Syracuse gets 50 to 80 inches in one month. It's happened many times in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sferic Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said: Word of caution: Take the maps with a grain of salt. Along with more snow chances comes more disappointments. In good winters where cold air is plentiful and we're in a clipper track, sure, winter is definitely more exciting and many nice surprises. But...we've been in a run of bad years where cold and moisture has been lacking. I'm really hoping we can see a month this winter where Syracuse gets 50 to 80 inches in one month. It's happened many times in the past. Snowiest winter for me was on long Island was 1995-96 where Central park in Manhattan recorded around 75 inches for the SEASON and that was astounding Most snow on the ground I ever experienced was about 2 feet ( not drifts) I will learn the climatology here. Different living here than the Catskills or Long Island. Glad i moved here 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, sferic said: Snowiest winter for me was on long Island was 1995-96 where Central park in Manhattan recorded around 75 inches for the SEASON and that was astounding Most snow on the ground I ever experienced was about 2 feet ( not drifts) I will learn the climatology here. Different living here than the Catskills or Long Island. Glad i moved here I'm glad you did as well. Lake effect snow is a whole different animal. You can get great hits, as you've already noticed...and then you can get great misses where you're green while a mile away it looks like winter. Last year, Brewerton got in a really nice band that dumped like 16 inches there...and 8 to 10 inches here. Two days later, we had one of those wonderful South wind Sizzlers (that I passionately hate) and most of our snowpack melted, while Brewerton still had a solid pack. For about 2 weeks it looked like winter there, while the rest of the metro was brown sticks. It can be quite frustrating if you "get left out" whereas on Long Island, everybody gets left out. lol Lake effect is usually also much fluffier and compacts extremely fast...and as a result of low moisture content, melts pretty quickly. It adds up quickly...but disappears just as fast in mild winters. It's fantastic for snow activities like snowshoeing and cross country skiing. It also tends to easier to drive on, as it's not the greasy, sloppy stuff that you get on Long Island. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sferic Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said: I'm glad you did as well. Lake effect snow is a whole different animal. You can get great hits, as you've already noticed...and then you can get great misses where you're green while a mile away it looks like winter. Last year, Brewerton got in a really nice band that dumped like 16 inches there...and 8 to 10 inches here. Two days later, we had one of those wonderful South wind Sizzlers (that I passionately hate) and most of our snowpack melted, while Brewerton still had a solid pack. For about 2 weeks it looked like winter there, while the rest of the metro was brown sticks. It can be quite frustrating if you "get left out" whereas on Long Island, everybody gets left out. lol Lake effect is usually also much fluffier and compacts extremely fast...and as a result of low moisture content, melts pretty quickly. It adds up quickly...but disappears just as fast in mild winters. It's fantastic for snow activities like snowshoeing and cross country skiing. It also tends to easier to drive on, as it's not the greasy, sloppy stuff that you get on Long Island. Matt, you are SW of me I believe. What is the most accumulated untouched snow depth you've ever seen at your location? Does this area get Icestorms? On Long Island we always deal with a rain snow line which quickly changes LI snow to rain especially with a SE wind. We love it up here; learning other things other than weather related things Glad I made the move but still have my other house on LI and a family house in the Catskills so in the rare case NYC/LI is to be blasted or a N'Easter serves up a Catskills special I'll go to that location! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY_WX Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Looks like a meso low coming onshore over Oswego. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie09 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 1.5" here on the day, snowing moderately with a temp of 28°.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugHillMatt Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, CNY_WX said: Looks like a meso low coming onshore over Oswego. Yeah, I saw that. Looks like you will be in it. Going to be a close call for here, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sferic Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Impressive 2 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said: Yeah, I saw that. Looks like you will be in it. Going to be a close call for here, I think. Impressive, hope we all cash in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY_WX Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 That V in the returns looks like an arrow pointed right at me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sferic Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, CNY_WX said: That V in the returns looks like an arrow pointed right at me. Impressive line, good luck ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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