Albany Continues to Be King of the Snow Hill

Posted by The Snowman on November 11, 2011
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I’m not sure how many time Albany has led the Golden Snowball contest since starting the site almost 10 years ago.  It would seem like this is probably the longest they have held on to the lead though.  Go Albany!!!  I just updated the snow stats and nothing new for any of the GSB cities other than the average snowfall totals.

Today is the first time I saw it snow this season and it only lasted about 10 minutes :(.  It could get interesting though with this little cold spell that will be around for a day or two.  I don’t think Buffalo, Syracuse or Rochester can overtake the snow hill but maybe Binghamton will give it a shot 😉

On a cool note I always think it’s cool when our snow contest gets a mention in the press whether big or small.  I was looking around and saw a mention and link to the golden snowball site from the Weather Journal blog at The Wall Street Journal.  Pretty cool IMO and thanks Eric Holthaus for the mention 😉 

Snow, Snow, Snow and a Ho, Ho, Ho!  If you’re looking for the place that Santa Claus gets his Santa suits from I’m pretty sure it’s at Santa-Costumes.com .  Yeah another shameless plug to one of my Christmas sites.  Hey, have a super Friday all 😉

New averages for GSB cities

Posted by Stephen on October 30, 2011
Posted in: new york snow contest.

With another decade complete, the National Weather Service has updated the climate averages, which include daily high and low temperatures, and what we’re all interested in here, daily and seasonal snowfall. Because of international agreement, these averages use 30 years of data, the 3 most recently completed decades. Since the beginning of our Golden Snowball website, we have been using the averages from 1971-2000. However, soon we will be using the “new” averages, which are from 1981-2010. I’ll have to look into the “true” ending for snowfall when I get a chance as the snowfall season goes from July-June, which is different than basically every other stat. My guess is when they compute the snowfall averages, they use the snowfall for each year (1990), rather than each season (July 1990-June 1991).

I figured I’d take a look at the “old” averages and compare them with the “new” ones.

City 1971-2000 1981-2010
Albany 62.6 59.1
Binghamton 81 83.4
Buffalo 97 94.7
Rochester 100.3 99.5
Syracuse 121.1 123.8

Of the 5 GSB cities, only Binghamton and Syracuse’s averages have gone up. Syracuse is now the only city with an average of 100 or more, as Rochester falls a half an inch short at 99.5. The biggest difference between the averages is Albany’s, a decrease in 3.5 inches.

You may have noticed that I keep calling these averages, while most other people call them normals. That is because I generally try to avoid using “normal” when talking about statistics like these. To me, “normal” gives the false impression that the average is what you should expect, what “normally” happens. As any of the long time residents in the GSB cities know, the only thing normal about our winters is their abnormality.

Let the Snow Games Begin, Binghamton Strikes First

Posted by The Snowman on October 27, 2011
Posted in: binghamton snow, Golden Snowball.

Binghamton has started up the golden snowball contest this season.  Way to go Bingo!!!  Albany kicked the snowfall season off last year but it wasn’t until around the 8th – 9th of November last season. 

Binghamton also started this years NY snow contest off in style.  They set a date record with 1.9 inches of snow reported so far today.  Nice!

So far Albany isn’t reporting for this evening so I’m not sure what’s going on there.  I have talked to a couple of people that live around the area and earlier said some snow was coming down.  Let the CNY Snow Game Begin 🙂

Which Snowy City Will Strike First

Posted by The Snowman on October 27, 2011
Posted in: new york snow contest.

Hello snow lovers and snow haters 🙂  It looks like snow is in the forecast for some of the goldensnowball cities like it or not.  I’ve always been surprised each snow season as to the city that starts off the new season receiving the first snowfall.

I’m not even sure if anyone is coming here yet but if you are lets start this new website off with a question.  Which city do you all think will get the first measurable snowfall to kick off the new 2011 – 2012 golden snowball contest?  Will it be Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse or a couple of them?  The normal prize for the winner which is a virtual pat on the back.  Yeah, we spare no expenses here at goldensnowball.com 😉

I’m gonna say that Binghamton starts the snow party!

Have a great day and more important have a safe winter season all!

New Design Coming – Back to Goldensnowball.com

Posted by The Snowman on October 17, 2011
Posted in: Uncategorized.

Just a heads up that it’s getting close to that time love it or hate it. I’m going to be switching over to wordpress if everything goes right and once the new design is ready it will be back to www.goldensnowball.com . Hopefully I don’t wipe the entire site and posts out from the last several years while trying to change it over.

I think we can do a little more with the site and snow contest using wordpress rather than blogger. A lot will still be the same like posting comments and so on but hopefully some extras like having you who visit being able to upload some snow pictures and a more visitor friendly site for all of us. Keeping my fingers crossed that even though I have the blogger backed up that I don’t lose everything.

Cheers,
Patrick

Halloween Costumes Means Snows Coming

Posted by The Snowman on September 6, 2011
Posted in: Uncategorized.

I’m trying to think how last Halloween was here in Central New York. It almost always seems to be a little bit cold with a light drizzle don’t it. Of course every now and then we get a decent Halloween night for the kids to do their trick or treating on. Let’s hope it’s that way this Halloween.

OK, now for another shameless plug of my sites that sell Halloween costumes. I came up with several this year and tried to break them down to individuals. In other words a site for just men’s costumes, women’s Halloween costumes, costumes for teens, toddlers Halloween costumes, baby costumes, costumes for just boys and costumes for little girls.

What I did was take all of the Halloween costumes from several merchants that I deal with and added them to each site. This way rather than visiting several costume stores you can browse on one site. If there is a coupon for the Halloween merchant you should see it when you click on a costume you like. Just visit any of the sites below and for best results use the search box on the page. No need to type in costume you can just type in whatever you’re searching for such as batman, fairy, witch, vampire, etc… Of course any store that you end up with will also have other specials and deals running besides the coupons we have on our sites. Plus all of the merchants will have plenty of costumes for the whole family also.

Mens Halloween Costumes

Womens Costumes

Costumes for Teens and Tweens

Boys Costumes

Girls Halloween Costumes

Toddlers Costumes

Baby Halloween Costumes

Oh, and thanks for shopping for your costumes and Halloween inflatables and yard decorations through our sites. It helps keep golden snowball going believe it or not. Have a great Halloween everyone!