With Syracuse having taken over the updates on the site (and deservedly so), I figured it was about time to shift the focus off of the current contest, especially since it’s been a fairly calm period for the GSB cities. There was a pretty good discussion on the previous update about the snowiest days ever recorded in Syracuse. That discussion is the inspiration for this post, the top three snowiest days for each of the GSB cities.

Albany:
1. 30.4 (March 12, 1888)
2. 23.5 (February 14, 1914)
3. 22.0 (March 13, 1993)

Binghamton:
1. 21.0 (February 19, 1972)
2. 18.6 (March 13, 1993)
3. 18.4 (January 13, 1964)

Buffalo:
1. 33.9 (December 10, 1995)
2. 26.2 (December 28, 2001)
3. 24.9 (November 20, 2000)

Rochester:
1. 23.0 (January 3, 1996)
2. 22.3 (March 4, 1999)
3. 18.4 (March 6, 1999 and February 14, 1960)

Syracuse:
1. 22.1 (March 13, 1993)
2. 22.0 (January 31, 1966)
3. 20.8 (February 4, 1961)

Rochester knocked a couple more inches off Syracuse’s lead yesterday. Syracuse hasn’t gotten anything near what was expected and I think the same is happening to Buffalo. The snow is all around the area just not where we need it to be. Where it gets measured 🙁 Here are the final snow stats for yesterday, 12/14.

Rochester – 7.3
Buffalo – 5.5
Syracuse – 5.0
Albany – 1.6
Binghamton – 1.3

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12/15 1:00 AM – Here is another update for this second round. Syracuse is showing another 4 inches give or take But… That was as of about 10 PM. Rochester and Buffalo are only showing as of about 4 PM. Lets see what the stats show come the next update :)) Good Night All!

7:00 PM – Just did a quick update. Only Rochester and Buffalo reported. Buffalo added 5.5 inches so far today and Rochester added another 6.8 to their snow totals.

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I just did a full update at www.goldensnowglobe.com. The top 10 is starting to tighten up a bit :))

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All of the snow stats should be up to date as far as yesterdays totals go. Rochester managed to melt away about 5 inches of snow from Syracuse’s lead. Buffalo gained a little over 2 inches on Da Cause. Both Syracuse and Bingo only picked up about an inch and a half of the white fluffy stuff. Hey and even Albany picked up a little :))

I have a feeling my niece Kim is probably mad at me today because I told her that she may have a snow day either today or tomorrow or both. Well that didn’t pan out for today but maybe the kids will get lucky tomorrow. It should be interesting once some of the overnight and today’s totals come out. Not much going on in Syracuse right now so this is a good chance for the other cities to melt away some of their lead. Below are what was reported for Yesterday.

Rochester – 6.3
Buffalo – 3.7
Binghamton – 1.6
Syracuse – 1.4
Albany – 1.1

Have a Super Day All!

It’s about 1:30 am here in DaCuse. Cold, windy with light steady snow. What’s it doing in your neck of the woods???

I’ve been keeping an eye on NOAA and on some of the weather websites today. I was thinking and maybe even hoping we were going to have a repeat of last weeks snow with perhaps Syracuse and Rochester making out pretty good again with this round. 🙂

The snow predictions seem like they have been going up and down for a good part of yesterday so in my opinion I think it’s still up in the air as to who will get what and how much? I’m still liking Rochester as the winner of this round but Syracuse may be able to hold them off as far as totals go thru Thursday. Buffalo looked like they were getting some snow earlier? Albany is most likely to finally add something to their snow totals. Something they haven’t been able to do since they started up the 2010 – 2011 Golden Snowball contest.

More to come in the morning and it will be interesting to see what happened overnight.

Good luck saying that title 5 times fast! 🙂

This is my first post as a contributor to the site, so I figured what better way to celebrate than a look back at the last storm.

According to the National Weather Service, the storm produced the fourth highest snowfall totals in any four day period on record. Below are the top 4 four day totals, with the last date in the four day period in parenthesis.

44.6 inches (2/1/1966)
44.5 inches (3/14/1993)
44.3 inches (1/31/1966)
43.2 inches (12/8/2010)

I find it a bit interesting that the three higher amounts are all in the later portion of the season. So, in other words, this the highest amount of snow Syracuse has ever had in a four day period this early in the season.

It was also the 6th highest 5 day total, and the 5th highest 3 day total.

It snowed continuously from 6:16 AM December 4th to 8:10 AM December 8th. That’s a total of 97 hours and 54 minutes.

Oh yeah, more snow is expected toward the later part of the weekend, and the early part of next week.

Is Buffalo’s snowiest season for all GSB cities (199.4 in 1976-1977) in trouble? Obviously, it’s way too early to tell, but Syracuse is already about a quarter of the way there.

By the way, Winter has not officially begun yet. That’s December 21st, almost 2 weeks away.

I’m looking out the window and I’m seeing something that has been missing for about a week now. Blue sky’s! Not a single snowflake is falling here in Syracuse and we’ll see how long that lasts. What a difference 4 – 5 days make in the great snow race called Golden Snowball.

Albany started off this season back around Nov 7th – 8th with 1.3 inches of snow and hasn’t added to their totals since. Then come around Nov. 27th Buffalo grabbed the lead with 1.6 inches of snow total. Rochester decided to take over the snowfall lead around Dec. 5th – 6th and got to enjoy it for about a day before Syracuse said in a nice way of course, “step aside please and thank you very much”. OK, Isaid that and not Syracuse 🙂

Syracuse gained the lead with some record breaking snowfall. Three days straight they set a daily record for snow totals including yesterday picking up 14.9 inches of snow beating the old record of 8.9 set back in 1961. Way to go ‘Cuse!!!

Right now all of the cities are ahead of their average snowfall for this time in the snow season and are blowing away last years snow totals. Syracuse stands out of course with probably 4 feet more of snow falling compared to last season. The overnight totals still haven’t been added.

A storm is heading our way in the next few days and it will be interesting to see which city makes out the best with it. I have a feeling it will be more westerly winds and predict advantage Buffalo and Rochester. Just a hunch or maybe wishful thinking after shoveling about 8 times so far this week. So does the Syracuse lead make it a lock for Syracuse once again? No way, it’s not even close to being over. As a matter of fact the snow season is just beginning :))

Hey, have a super day all!

Way to go Buffalo sneaking in just enough to knock Albany down from the top spot on the snow mountain. All 5 of the Golden Snowball cities have boarded the sled into the 2010 – 2011 snowfall season. I think come tomorrow there should be some more snow to add to the totals. It still just don’t look right seeing Albany up near the top. Let’s see how long they can stick around.

Have a Great Day All!