Well, look at that, it’s February! Time to take a look back at January’s snowfall for the GSB cities.
Albany: 7.5
Binghamton: 17.2
Buffalo: 20.8
Rochester: 19.9
Syracuse: 24.6
The big winner was Syracuse with just over 2 feet of snow! Um…what the heck kind of January was that? All of the GSB cities were below their average for the month! Wow. Let’s go a little bit deeper than just snowfall and check the precipitation stats.
Albany: 2.26
Binghamton: 3.04
Buffalo: 4.42
Rochester: 3.32
Syracuse: 3.88
For comparison sake, here is each city’s average precipitation for January:
Albany: 2.59
Binghamton: 2.45
Buffalo: 3.18
Rochester: 2.41
Syracuse: 2.50
Four of the GSB cities had above average precipitation, and Albany was pretty close to average. It just didn’t fall as snow. A bit colder weather (ok, A LOT MORE colder weather), and we may have been talking about some decent snowfall numbers for the month.
Either way, it’s been a very snowless season so far. But I can’t shake the feeling that will change at some point this season. I mean, it can’t be like this the whole season…can it?
Hey, have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy the Super Bowl!
I think that jet stream hanging way up north will drop in the next week or so weatheman. Hopefully is sticks around for a bit once it does. JMO 🙂
While I’m not optimistic about an overall snowy winter, the opportunity for massive lake effect events will be greater than normal considering the temperatures. Ontario is going to be more viable for snowfall creation…assuming the air temperatures fall at some point, that is.