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Late, Late Night Update – I drove around a bit tonight and took a few pictures which most likely won’t come out but the scenery is beautiful with the snow sticking on everything. Lets hope that the LES comes into play to top things off 😉

Snow Reported So Far as of about 4:00 pm. I’ll be missing in action for awhile tonight but will catch up any comments that come through when I get back. Don’t let the totals fool you there is more to come between tonight and tomorrow.

Syracuse – 4.2
Rochester – 3.7
Binghamton – 3.1
Buffalo – 2.6
Albany – 0.4

Updated 2/26 – I’m just going to update this post rather than starting a new one. So far here in the Syracuse area it’s been non stop snow since early this morning. Mostly light heavy snow if that makes any sense. In other words the snow has been falling lightly to moderate throughout the day but a few good heavy blasts of snow would come and go every now and then. The heavy part being the weight of the snow. It’s wet and it is very heavy and I’m glad I shoveled it twice so far to break it up a little. I measured a couple of times coming up with 3 1/2 inches but looking out the window after a big blast just came through around 4:00 pm most likely at least another inch has fallen. The roads around here in the Syracuse area are slick and from reading some other blogs most of CNY is probably the same so take your time getting home and check with your local forecasts as to what is still on it’s way.

Here are the latest storm warnings and watches posted today and tonight by NOAA. Just click the links to read them at NOAA and they are subject to change;

Albany – Winter Weather Advisory
Binghamton – Winter Weather Advisory
Buffalo – Winter Storm Warning
Rochester – Winter Storm Warning
Syracuse – Winter Storm Warning

Well here comes another storm and it’s time to play the guesstimate game. There has been So many so called storms this season that most of the GSB cities are below their averages. Normally I would say something like “that will be changing soon” but with all the storm busts this season I’m not going to say that.

OK, yes I am going to say it because I really, really believe in this storm and this should bring all of the Golden Snowball cities over their averages for this time in the season. Ummm, we’ll make Buffalo the exception although they may go over their average too.

If Syracuse doesn’t get at least 9 inches from this storm by Wednesday night I’m shaving the beard off, heading to the store to buy some new sandals and sunglasses and hiding in a closet until Spring weather comes which is normally sometime in mid summer 😉 In other words it’s time to BRING ON THE HEAVY SNOW or lets move on to nicer weather. Can you tell I’m totally disappointed with this winter. I do still think we have quite a bit of snow to go though before we get to what some of you call the NICE weather.

Time for the Snow Guesstimate game with the normal prizes of a pat on the back and a nice job thrown your way. Lets set the deadline to get your totals in at noon Tuesday. I know most likely we will already be getting some snow by then but hey, does it really matter 😉 If your later than that, that’s no problem either just make a comment with your totals for the 5 Golden Snowball Cities. Lets set the time table from right now until the stats come in from NOAA Thursday because lake effect most likely will be firing up also. I’m going high with this storm. Yeah i know again, nothing new for me huh and yes I have Syracuse winning this round too.

Syracuse – 17.0
Rochester – 15.0
Buffalo – 12
Albany – 9.0
Binghamton – 8.0

Take this storm seriously folks and keep an eye on your local forecast. Most importantly SNOW MEANS SLOW, drive carefully and have a great day.