Updated 7:00 PM 1/12 – Buffalo continues to add to their snow lead and are now almost 14 inches ahead of the next snowiest city, Syracuse. Albany was hanging in with the big boys for awhile but are starting to slip behind (go figure) and are now trailing the top spot by almost 2 feet of snow. Of course one Nor’easter that hangs to the east could put them back in the running.
Buffalo remains in 3rd place in the National snow contest as of yesterdays update and keeping up pretty good with the number 1 and 2 cities in that snow contest. There is still a lot of time left in the snow season for any of the cities to make a run 😉
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Updated 1/10 – I mentioned earlier that I was curious as to what the ice cover is on Lake Erie right now and T.W. posted a good link for me in the comments. Thanks T.W. 😉
Wow kind of comes to mind when I see how wide open it is right now. I was thinking that most of Lake Erie wouldn’t have any ice on it because of how warm it’s been up until this last week but wasn’t expecting the whole lake to be pretty much wide open. Instead of a snow dance for Syracuse I might be better off doing a cold dance for Buffalo to help slow down their Lake Effect Snow Machine, Lake Erie 😉
Click Here for All of the Great Lakes and the ice cover so far.
Buffalo is starting to pull away from the rest of us in the snow contest. They picked up another half a foot of snow yesterday, 6.5 inches of new snow and now lead last years snow champs Syracuse by over 9 inches. It seem like just a couple of days ago those 2 cities were tied. Oh Yeah, they were.
Buffalo is also doing pretty good in the National snow contest this season and as of the last update in that snow contest Buffalo was in 3rd place behind Erie, Pa and Grand Rapids. I’ll be getting an update in for the National Big city snow contest in a little bit.
The snow race is far from over of course and if you look at the snow stats above you will see that Buffalo had an even bigger at this time as they do right now. I thought for sure that last season was going to be Buffalo’s turn to wear the crown but they just missed by a couple of inches. Is this the season that Buffalo takes the victory lap around lake Erie.
Speaking of Lake Erie (ya like how I did that 😉 ) does anyone have any info on how much of it has frozen over so far? I’m thinking that a good portion is still wide open because of how warm it’s been up until this week which I think will give Buffalo the advantage. Then again Buffalo did pretty good last season even though Lake Erie froze over really early. Even after the lake froze over Buffalo was still picking up enough snow to stay near the top right til the very end.
Stay Tuned for Hopefully another update later today. Have a Great Day All!
The Lake Erie advantage is over for Buffalo. Ice cover went from roughly 10% last week to over 88% as of Wednesday. With yet another night in the single digits tonight we should be closing in on total ice coverage by the end of the week. Gonna be tough for Buffalo to hang onto that lead now unless spring decides to arrive super early this year…
If they only measured the snow 2 miles south of the airport buffalo would have a huge lead. 125 inches so far this year in Lancaster which sits 1.5 miles southeast of where the measurements are taken
Yes Lancaster and several other cities have been getting pounded Angelo. It’s not too often that I hope or pray for it to stop snowing but when that crazy, scary amount of snow was falling earlier in the season I was doing both. Too dangerous and nothing fun about that much snow all at once…
Here’s a map of current Lake Erie ice cover:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/ncast/eicecon-00.gif
Plenty of open water right now, but it’s icing over quickly with this cold air.
It came from this site, which has lots of good info on all of the great lakes:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/
Go Buffalo!
Thanks T.W. for taking the time. It’s just what I was looking for 🙂 Go Syracuse, lol
As long as one of us wins the national contest! Can’t let MI or PA have it!
I’m with you on that T.W. 🙂 Hopefully one of the three cny/western NY cities take it… Still have to throw Rochester in there even though they have been quiet so far this season too…
🙂