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Blowvember - and not named for wind potential


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29 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It’s actually north of Orchard Park now.

The stadium is somewhat NW of the city center and is located between Orchard Park and Blasdell. Radar showed some good bands hitting that area before the radar went down. 

HRRR has the band sinking south overnight. 

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36 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Imagine being a weenie in Niagara Falls. Man I would have already been in a barrel over the falls by age 6.

Brutal. I experienced a smaller version of that in Ithaca during college. Places maybe 20 miles north in Cortland county would get into this decent bands on NW multi-band flow…while not quite as organized as those single band events, they would often get some of the meatier bands within the event and get 10-15” while we were dinking and dunking for 3” or something. 
 

But unlike IAG, at least sometimes we’d get the right flow and get a single band down the finger lake of Cayuga…and when that happened, it was like real lake effect. We’d go total whiteout and get 4” per hour type stuff. Usually didn’t last too long in that flow but it didn’t have to when you snow that hard. 

 

@OceanStWx can attest. It was often frustrating but def not as bad as IAG. IAG might be in the worst spot for snow within 75 miles. You might have to go well southeast to a snow hole like Elmira before getting into worse snowfall territory.  

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10 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Brutal. I experienced a smaller version of that in Ithaca during college. Places maybe 20 miles north in Cortland county would get into this decent bands on NW multi-band flow…while not quite as organized as those single band events, they would often get some of the meatier bands within the event and get 10-15” while we were dinking and dunking for 3” or something. 
 

But unlike IAG, at least sometimes we’d get the right flow and get a single band down the finger lake of Cayuga…and when that happened, it was like real lake effect. We’d go total whiteout and get 4” per hour type stuff. Usually didn’t last too long in that flow but it didn’t have to when you snow that hard. 

 

@OceanStWx can attest. It was often frustrating but def not as bad as IAG. IAG might be in the worst spot for snow within 75 miles. You might have to go well southeast to a snow hole like Elmira before getting into worse snowfall territory.  

My freshmen year we did top 100" but I think 30-35% of that fell on winter break when nobody was around to see it. Just came back to crusty banks and bitter cold. 

The Finger Lake effect was always fun because a 5 degree wind direction difference meant it was over the Cornell coop site, which was how we verified the forecast contest. 

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15 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Imagine being a weenie in Niagara Falls. Man I would have already been in a barrel over the falls by age 6.

That was me as a Kid growing up in the city and then near the airport. I always told myself when I get old enough to move out I'm going south! We got slammed, 31" in a day here. I got this video of thundersnow from my cam.

 

 

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