Golden Snowball

Syracuse Holding On North Getting Pounded

Posted by The Snowman on January 22, 2013
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Just a heads up – the golden snowball site may be go offline for a couple of days.  If it does I’ll get it up ASAP.
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OK, Syracuse finally picked up a few more inches of new snowfall to add a little bit to their lead.  Most of the snow has been staying up north of Da’Cuse but has to drop south sooner or later I would hope.  I also hope that the other cities, Rochester, Buffalo and Binghamton get it going pretty soon.

Binghamton has been doing good lately as far as the snow totals go managing to keep some snowflakes between them and the bottom three cities.  It always looks like the snow is around Rochester but must just be missing them.  I think with the coldest air of the season finally here that we all will be adding to our snowfall totals this week.

A picture from Grace, a friend in the Central Square area just taken!

There have been a few good bands of snow hanging to the north of Syracuse which is a good thing for the other cities.  The last couple of days the lake effect snow bands will start to drop toward Syracuse but then suddenly stop right on the border.  These are some decent snow bands too which have dropped probably close or over a couple of feet on the cities up north like Central Square, Oswego, Fulton, the Tug Hill area and other towns.  No doubt the snowmobilers are loving it 🙂

I was just looking around at the national snow contest at www.goldensnowglobe.com which was updated yesterday.  Syracuse still is in first place in the nationals but reading around today I see that Erie, Pa got pounded pretty good and may have taken the lead.  Right now it’s close and it will depend on how Erie did overnight last night.  I’ll try and get a top 10 update in later when the new snow stats come out.  Unfortunately as it always seems the case the decent snow is to the south of Buffalo.  Maybe Buffalo will pile on some snow with this cold air in place.  Let’s hope so.

Have a Great Day 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!

A Snowman Convention for Snow Lovers

Posted by The Snowman on January 8, 2013
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OK, call me clueless but I don’t remember ever posting about this contest.  I think I read somewhere that it is the 8th annual snowman contest.  You would think that after 10 years give or take of keeping this site going I would have posted about this before.  Like I said, call me clueless 🙁  It’s nice to know that someone gets what having winter fun is about in snowy CNY 😉

I was just reading an article that Sean Kirst of the Post Standard / Syracuse.com posted earlier about a snowman convention that they have here in the Syracuse area put on by Skiddy the Snowman.  There is a pretty cool picture of a grape snow ape on the site.  It seems to be geared toward the local teachers and their school children and also families but they area also letting you send in your pictures of your snow creations.  I’m not sure if this is just for the folks in the Syracuse area or if it’s open to all.  You can check out Sean’s post and a picture of the grape ape at http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2013/01/post_395.html

There is more information about the snowman contest at Skiddy the Snowmans website at http://goskiddy.com/

It’s On Buffalo, Oh It’s On Now

Posted by The Snowman on January 7, 2013
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First off thank you to those who have recently donated.  Robert S., Barry K. and Dennis F..  It really is appreciated and I made up a little thank you page even though it really doesn’t quite express how much I appreciate it.

OK, on to Buffalo you coach stealing %^^&(%.  Syracuse finally gets a coach that I/We like and because you can’t grab the Golden Snowball trophy you come along and grab our football coach, Coach Marrone.  We finally have, No make that had a coach that gave us an exciting offense and an exciting explosive defense and now he’s gone.  Now he is moving on to his next dream job as head coach of the Buffalo Bills.   Shame on you Buffalo, shame on you 🙁

At least we still have Coach B. who isn’t going anywhere anytime soon 🙂 OK, End of Rant!

The rant was all in fun, sort of 😉  I do wish Coach Marrone the best of luck in Buffalo.  God only knows he’ll need some :p  I also hope this is what the Bills need to get them back on the winning track and back into the playoffs come next season.  For those of you in Buffalo I can tell you one thing.  Look for an exciting offense and explosive defense in the next year or two and Good Luck to the Buffalo Bills!

Have a Great Week All 🙂

 

Happy New Year All

Posted by The Snowman on January 1, 2013
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From our family to yours, We wish you a happy, prosperous and more importantly a healthy New Year.  Happy New Year Everyone 🙂

I think I may need to put up a thank you page for the donations.  Golden Snowball received it’s second donation ever 🙂  The first was several years back when I went to the mail and there was a letter that had $5.00 in it.  I still have that letter some where in the house.  It was from someone named Pat and it said to have a beer and some wings on them.  I thought that was so cool.

A few weeks ago I added some Pay Pal Donate links to the site in hopes of off setting some of the costs of the website, not to mention the time that is put into the site.  Well I just looked at my pay pal account and saw the first donation was made.  It’s nice to be appreciated and was a great way to start the New Year off.

Thanks Alison for the donation, it’s appreciated.

Have a Safe Happy New Year Everyone 😉

Binghamton Pushes Syracuse Down the Snow Hill

Posted by The Snowman on November 29, 2012
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One of the reasons I like the beginning of the snow season is that there is a lot of pushing going on at the top of the snow hill.  None of the cities have built up a big enough lead this early so back and forth it goes.  Normally until a decent storm hits one or two of the cities to give them a little fluffy snow cushion 🙂

Binghamton has regained the lead from Syracuse who was able to hold onto it for just a day or two.  Let’s see if Bingo can hold on to it for awhile this time. So far it seems like the the normal is happening with the snow staying to the north of Syracuse and to the south