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National Snow Contest Has Started Nothing Here Yet

Posted by The Snowman on October 24, 2013
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Nothing measurable to report yet for the Golden Snowball cities but that could change anytime now. Just a trace of snow for Syracuse and Binghamton being reported so far. I did hear about some white stuff falling around Binghamton so we will see if that gets reported in the update later today/this evening.

My daughter is in town from the Carolina’s and I just took my Grandson for a nice brisk walk. Gotta show him where his roots are from. I think I was colder than he was and he handled it like a trooper from the North 😉

The national snow contest has started and it’s all Colorado. I just did an update on th National Snowiest City site yesterday. You can check that out at Goldensnowglobe . com.

Have a Great Day All 😉

The Lake Effect Book Contest Has Ended

Posted by The Snowman on March 1, 2013
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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.

Sites Back Up and So Is Rochester’s Snow

Posted by The Snowman on January 25, 2013
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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!

January Thaw With Gusty Winds

Posted by The Snowman on January 9, 2013
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It looks like we hit our January thaw and I’m kind of glad that we can get it out of the way.  From reading around it looks like a few warm days are ahead of us and as I type the winds are gusting pretty good in the ‘Cuse area.  Hopefully in the next couple of days the snow and ice on the roof melts so I can take the outdoor Christmas decorations down.  I think it was just a few years ago when it was nonstop snow and cold when the lights were up until March.

The last post was about the snowman contest and I think it’s time we have one here at the Golden Snowball website.  Not like our normal ones where you guesstimate the totals and win a pat on the back if you’re right.  This one will be for a real prize 🙂  I’m still trying to figure out the details but it will be based on a little contest that Stephen and I have going right now on the National snowiest city website http://goldensnowglobe.com which was just updated by the way.

I already have a prize in mind which is an autographed copy of a book I received a couple of months ago based on lake effect snow written by weather expert author Mark Monmonier.  He has several other books that are published and that are great reads for any weather enthusiasts.  More to come in the next day or two.

Have a Great Day All!

Below Average Snow But Above Last Seasons

Posted by The Snowman on December 7, 2012
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I was just looking at the snow stats and all of the cities are below their normal snowfall averages for this time of year.  Could this be another season like the 2011 – 2012 snow season?  Could be but I don’t think it’s going to be.

I haven’t looked at last season but it seems to be colder more days than it was the last.  Plus right now with the exception of Albany all of our snow totals are over last season.  Not by a lot but we’re off to a slightly better start this season and it’s so early into the snow season.  Below is the difference from what the average snow totals should be for this time of year.

Albany is  -4 inches
Binghamton is -4.9
Buffalo is -10.2
Rochester is -10
Syracuse is -12.5

Let’s wait, hope and see if we can catch up to those stats some time in the near future 🙂  Have a Great weekend ev

Let The 2012 – 2013 Golden Snow Games Begin

Posted by The Snowman on November 4, 2012
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Coming to you live from New York it’s the 2012 – 2013 Golden Snowball snow contest! Hello all, we hope you had an awesome summer. We sure did with plenty of poolside cocktails and soda pops to go with plenty of hot, hot days of sunshine. Now it’s just a memory of the past as the cold weather is upon us with the possibility of another storm coming up the coast.

Normally when I here storm I’m all in but because of the devastation from Hurricane Sandy and so many folks still without power I’m hoping this one passes by those on the East coast. I know I have several family members and friends who were and still are being affected by Hurricane Sandy. Most likely you do too. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of them.

Once again congrats to Rochester, last seasons champion 🙂 Who would have thought that around 60 inches of snow would win the Golden Snowball contest. Not us that’s for sure but they did and you can bet all of the other cities will be out to dethrone them and knock them off from being the king of the snow hill this season.

That’s about it for now but I’m sure it’s only a matter of days, maybe even hours before one of our great cities has snow to report and gets on the snow board. Any thoughts on who this seasons snow champion will be?

Hey, have a fun, safe winter season and remember – See Snow – Drive Slow!