Buffalo has taken the lead in the Golden Snowball contest and did it in style picking up 7 inches of snowfall. I was hearing about the blizzard warnings that were issued for the Buffalo area and was wondering what the new totals would be. Way to go Buffalo and keep it going or is that keep it snowing 😉
Buffalo is now only 3.6 inches away from having more snow so far this season than all of last season which was 58.8 inches.
Buffalo’s 7 inches of snow yesterday just missed setting a date record which is 7.3 inches set back in 1963. I was reading about the high winds, blizzard conditions and the highway being closed by the governor so no doubt it had to have been pretty nasty to the west, The same is going on and has been to the north of Syracuse,
The chances are that Buffalo will most likely move up in the National Snow contest also. Depending on what Grand Rapids has to report Buffalo may move into second place in that snow contest. Give me a little bit of time and I’ll get a top 10 update done at the National Snow Contest the Golden Snow Globe site.
Have an Awesome Day All 🙂
If you want to use OP which is miles from the city to count it’s 22 inches you could more easily justify using Tonwanda which is actually adjacent to the City limits and only received 4 inches
My point was that the airport does not accurately reflect the lake effect snow with hits both the northtowns and southtowns more heavily than it does the airport Yes I know where Tonawanda is located. Your could also use Amherst, Lakawana, Hamburg, Seneca, etc to get a more “reflective” total. You could also say the same about Rochester’s airport which is outside the path of most lake effect snows. I think only Syracuse’s airport is located directly in the path of one of the lake effect snow belts. Just saying !
The airport is as accurate a reflection of the Buffalo areas snowfall as is OP. In fact if you were to base it on population the area that should be used would be in the North Buffalo, Tonawanda, Amherst area as that is where the bulk of the metro’s population lives. that area and Niagara County contain about 2/3 of the metro’s population and also averages about 40 inches less snow per year than does Orchard Park. To be fair the snow should be measured at a location within the actual city limits of the cities in thederby, perhaps at the City Hall of each city
Actually Orchard Park, one of the “southtowns” got 22 inches of snow according to WNYT in Albany. Measuring at the Buffalo airport which is generally outside of all the lake effect snow belts causes Buffalo to come up short in the tally.