Syracuse Moves to Top in National Snow Contest

Posted on April 3, 2013 by The Snowman

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Syracuse added quite a few snowflakes to their lead over 2nd place Rochester and also set a date record for Tuesday, 4/2/13. Syracuse picked up 10.5 inches of snow yesterday breaking the old date record of 1.4 inches back in 1991. Syracuse also has a shot at breaking their all time snow total record for the month of April which is 16.4 inches back in 1983 if it continues for a day or two. I think if they don’t break it by tonight I’m just about ready to say no problem, let’s move onto Spring.

Sean Kirst, journalist for the Post Standard and Syracuse.com put out a good article about this last late season snowfall in Syracuse and also how it helped them overtake Worcester, MA and Erie, PA in the national snow contest. Check out Sean’s article at here at Syracuse.com.

For some reason I’m starting be one of the most hated person on my facebook page. I’m talking my page that is all family and friends. Every time it snow I get posts like cut the crap Pat, enough already Pat, You better not do another snow dance, and a bunch of other posts on my facebook page and this is family also. It’s like my snow dances really have an effect on the weather OK, they really do and I did do one that ticked a bunch of people off but now that Syracuse has the lead in both the Golden Snowball Contest and the National Golden Snow Globe Contest I can finally do a Spring dance. Who knows, maybe I’ll do a spring ballet dance just to prove that I really am a team player. Nah, that isn’t happening

My neighbor across the street even called and said enough. She mentioned that I was or the snow was going to kill all of her flowers that just started to spring up. I told her just let us get ahead of Worcester, Mass and that will be the end of me wishing for more snow. Plus I told her that her flowers will be fine, that they are New Yorkers and they can handle it. We all made it through another winter/spring in New York and I suppose even I have to say that it’s time to move on to our Spring season. What’s left of it anyways

Have a SUPER SNOWLESS Week Everyone

Syracuse Springs to 100 Inches

Posted on March 23, 2013 by The Snowman

First off a Big Thanks to Melissa W. for your donation to the website. Thanks Melissa, I really do appreciate it

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OK, nothing like a nice spring shower, of snow that is. OK, maybe more like some Spring lake effect snow to put Syracuse over the 100 inch mark. All Syracuse needs now and most likely that fell during the overnight is another inch give or take to double last seasons wimpy snowfall totals. It’s hard to believe that they still may hit their seasonal average of 123 inches.

I got woken up this morning from Steve in Rochester who was curious as to what Rochester’s snow totals were as of today. Thanks for the wake up call Steve I’m joking, it was time to get up and get to work anyways. I guess he has a dinner bet going with a friend based on what the snow totals for Rochester end up being today. Unless The Rock got 4.5 inches overnight it looks like his wallet will be a little lighter come the end of the night Good Luck!

I think I finally figured a way to make a few bucks off our snow site. Come the end of the season, whenever that may be I offer a choice. If you want it to keep snowing then donate 5 bucks to the site and I’ll do another snow dance. If you’re sick of the snow by now donate 10.00 and I won’t do another snow dance You all know how effective my dances are Actually this is a little to close to almost blackmailing ya’s so maybe I better scratch that plan.

I haven’t posted much this season about Syracuse but trust me I’m still a die hard football and basketball fan of Da’Cuse. They play tonight against Cal and need to win to move on to the next round so Good Luck Orange!!! How are all of your brackets doing. So far one out of my two are in the trash already and the second one is barely hanging in there

Have a GREAT Weekend Everyone!!!

Rochester and Buffalo Slipping in Some Snowflakes

Posted on March 4, 2013 by The Snowman

It seems the last couple of updates I’ve been adding some snow to all of the cities. It also seems like Buffalo and Rochester seem to be gaining on the rest of us. The question now is there enough time left for a couple more charges to the top of the snow hill.

I think there is enough time and it seems like March is a good month for some decent storms. There is one brewing to the west right now but from what I have been reading it is expected to stay more to the south of us when it comes through. I’m hoping that maybe the jet stream will move up to the north a bit and maybe tighten up the snow contest as we come closer to the end of the snow season. Let’s go GSB cities! Do a snow dance or something to get the contest closer Can the defending snow champions Rochester pull off a late season victory. Still enough time left for them to do it.

I’m going to try and get a full update in on the National Snow Contest over at www.goldensnowglobe.com . That snow race is still pretty close between Syracuse, Erie, Pa and Worcester, Mass. As of the last update Syracuse was holding on to lead but only by inches. Erie may be able to cash in on the storm coming through. It should be/get interesting

Have a GREAT Week All

The Lake Effect Book Contest Has Ended

Posted on March 1, 2013 by The Snowman

I’ll be crunching numbers for those of you who entered to win the Autographed book “Lake Effect” signed by author Mark Monmonier. From taking a quick look at some of your snow stats that you guesstimated I can tell you that it’s pretty close between a handful of you.

OK, barring any fuzzy math on my part here are the entries that were pretty close to each other along with the winner of the contest. Thanks to all of you who entered

Stephen – 261.7 off by - 18.5
Kimberly – 299 off by - 18.8
Peter – 258.4 off by - 21.8

The winner and not by much is
* Don who had 297.5 and missed by 17.3 inches of snow.

END OF FUBRUARY TOTALS

Syracuse – 83.2
Rochester – 63.8
Binghamton – 53.8
Buffalo – 48.7
Albany – 30.7

Total = 280.2

The snow totals above is what NOAA, The National Weather Service has reported as of the end of yesterday. So the magic number to hit or be closest to after adding the totals of the 5 Golden Snowball cities comes out to 280.2 inches of snow.

Sean Kirst Article About a Man Who Thinks Snow Hurts Us

Posted on February 22, 2013 by The Snowman

Your input needed – I’m curious if the same conversations go on about snow in your cities that go on here in the Syracuse area. Mainly Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester. The argument every year is that is it good to brag about all of the snow we all get or to just keep quiet about it and hope that people don’t see the 4 – 5 foot snowbanks at times when they visit the area. Is this the same conversation in your city about the snowfall you get? Don’t brag about our snow.

Feel free to chime in here or at Sean Kirst’s place on the web. Sean, who is a great journalist for the Post Standard and Syracuse.com had a good article in the paper the other day. It’s about a gentleman from the Syracuse area, Russ Andrews who has been saying that he doen’t think it’s smart bragging or promoting our cities as being one of the snowiest bigger cities in the country on average and even in all of North America. Russ feels it hurts the city having that kind of reputation. Keep in mind that Russ Andrews is just making a fun spirited argument and shouldn’t be seen as a bad guy You can read the article at http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2013/02/amid_winterfest_russ_andrews_a.html

Sean and I have seen eye to eye on this since we first met and we both believe we should be promoting the Hell out of the snow our cities get. Let me also add that Sean is the main reason that the Golden Snowball contest was revived to what it is today with his articles, conversations about the snow and so on.

Sean, like myself vision drawing people to the area because of the amount of snow we normally receive each winter season. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, It snows here in Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester and no matter how hard some of the people in Syracuse want to hide it by shoveling it under the curbs it’s not going to work.

What needs to be done in my opinion is to bring the snow lovers from out of town into town because of the high amounts of snow we receive. Open up some of our state owned land in the area for snowmobilers, find a place where skiers can ski in the area besides the nearby ski slopes that we already have. Open up the state fair grounds for the snowmobilers and try to bring in the top sledders around the country for either races or the extreme sports shows. Make Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester a stop on their tour every year. Open the roadways (some of them) for a weekend and let the sledders use them. I miss the days when all you heard during a good storm were sleds cruising up and down the streets.

There is so much country side land around all of the Golden Snowball cities that it wouldn’t be hard to promote cross country skiing. Look at all of the lakes around central and upstate New York that would be perfect to draw in people to take advantage of the frozen lakes for ice fishing. Have a couple fishing tournaments to draw out of towners to visit our areas. Fill the hotels with fun filled winter sporting events. Come up with something fun and different each weekend for the snow lovers to draw them to the area. Open up some of the bigger hills for the kids to go sledding on.

I was reading a few years back about how well Quebec City does with their annual winter carnival they have. I think the last I looked they were drawing almost a million people to their area each year including a lot of out of towners including snow enthusiast’s from the United States. No doubt it’s a big investment, I think it was over a million dollars spent on the event but they are bringing in millions of dollars to their local businesses on that investment. Sure it would take a few years to get it going as good as Quebec city does with their winter carnival but in the long run if done right it would be well worth it.

Do people from other states really like snow though. I just looked at my visitor stats from the National Snow contest to see how many visitors were coming to the site. In the last 30 days goldensnowglobe.com had over 40,000 visitors from pretty much every state in the country. So I would have to say that yes, people from all over like snow. Build and they will come

Have an awesome weekend all and make sure you check out Sean’s latest article at http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2013/02/amid_winterfest_russ_andrews_a.html and don’t be too hard on Russ

Stubbed Toe Leads to Snow Dance & House For Sale

Posted on February 13, 2013 by The Snowman

Quite the title there huh but it will all make sense in after you read more, maybe I’ve been doing some painting at my house because it is up for sale now. You know how it goes when you paint you have to move stuff all over the place and you’re squeezing through the stuff.

Well that led up to stubbing my toe Instead of the normal cuss words that normally come out when I stub my toe I decided as I was bouncing around on one foot that I would continue it and turn it into the first snow dance of the season So the snow dance has taken place and lets see what happens in the next several days.

I’ve been meaning to list the house for sale here on the Golden Snowball site for awhile now and figure while all is quiet this is a good time. So if anyone is looking to move or looking for a house in the East Syracuse Minoa district (Fremont, New York) you can check out the info below to see if you’re interested. It’s a nice home in a nice neighborhood and in a great school district.

ABOUT THE HOUSE -

* 3 bedrooms
* Kitchen
* Living Room
* Dining Room (could be used as as office or another bedroom)
* 1 Large Bathroom – It’s a big bathroom that has the laundry on the first floor w/ whirlpool tub.
* Basement is unfinished, clean, dry and would be easy to finish off.
* One Car Garage with lot’s of storage space.
* House is on a 1/4 of an acre corner lot.

Asking Price is $119,000

For more information or to set up an appointment for a showing Call Anne Hesse at 315-701-6913

Have an Awesome Day All…

Did Rochester Win This Snow Round

Posted on February 9, 2013 by The Snowman

Updated 2/10

First Off, Thanks Jim M. for the donation to the site. Everyone of them help out a lot :)

OK, Here are the latest snow stats for the Golden Snowball cities for the last 2 days. Keep in mind that I have fuzzy math so…:) Actually I have the real estate agent coming over to do an open house so I had to put the stats together fast. I’ll double check them later after the SU game. GO ORANGE!!! Did any of you catch the Notre Dame – Louisville game last night? Awesome game with Notre Dame coming from behind to pull off a win after 5 OT’s.

Rochester – 13.1
Syracuse - 8.6
Buffalo – 8.4
Binghamton 6.9
Albany – 4.8

Right now it’s looking pretty good for Rochester but like I mentioned the overnight snow still has to be added. I measured 9.5 inches at my house which is just a few miles east of the city and just a few more miles from the airport. If I were a betting man, Oh yeah I am I would put my money on Rochester.

I think the biggest disappointment was Albany. I had them winning this snow round and it looks like they are going to come in last place. Shows how much I know and why you should look to your local weather for the real forecast I’ll get try and get another update in a little later when some more snow stats come out.

Have an Awesome Weekend Everyone

Sites Back Up and So Is Rochester’s Snow

Posted on January 25, 2013 by The Snowman

First off Thanks for the donation Cynthia B. It’s very much appreciated

Thanks to Jan also for the info and lnk on Lake Erie Here is how Lake Erie is looking http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/leofs/now_temp.shtml Jan metioned that Lake Erie is still mostly in the mid 30s, with a few edges frozen over which the map shows:

Some of you may have noticed that the website was down for a day or so. Sorry about that and hopefully it’s up for awhile now. It still may not be up in some parts of the state or country but hopefully by the end of the day everyone can get to it again. Thanks Barry for the heads up on it also. I’m just able to get on now and update the snow stats.

While we were down here Rochester made their move. Not enough to catch Syracuse yet but they slid past Binghamton to move into second place on the snow hill. WTG Rochester. Most of the cities are just a storm or two away from taken the lead from Syracuse and now it’s just a matter of which city will step up first.

I think we all know that sooner or later Buffalo will make some kind of move to the top I think they better make it sooner rather than later before their Lake Effect Machine freezes over with this Arctic cold air around. Does anyone know how much of the lakes have frozen over yet?

Have an awesome weekend Everyone!

Windy But No Snow Yet

Posted on January 20, 2013 by The Snowman

First off make sure you check out the post below to enter our snow contest. Today is the last day to get your entries in. Check it out here

Any snow falling yet in Rochester, Buffalo or Binghamton? As of right now, around 2:15 pm Sunday it’s windier than I have seen it in a long time. The gusts and winds that came through this morning had to be over 60 mph I would guess. Hopefully some decent lake effect snow comes into the golden snowball cities sometime soon. Nothing like some decent snow totals with whipping winds to make for a cool snow event. Of course take it slow on the roads if and when the snow does hit us. Clouds are just starting to move into the Syracuse area as I type.

Hey, how about the Orange? WTG on taking down the #1 basketball team in the country

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