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Syracuse Slides Past Last Season’s Total Snowfall

Posted by The Snowman on February 2, 2013
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Syracuse managed to pile up enough snow yesterday to bring their totals to date over what they had their entire season last year.  They also set a record for the the date, Feb. 1st picking up 10.1 inches of snow.  The old record was 7.6 inches set in 1974…

Even though this season seems pretty easy for some of us so far, all of the Golden Snowball cities are over last years lame snow totals to date.

Syracuse slid past last seasons total snowfall which was 50.6 inches when the contest was called the end of April.  So far this season as of the end of the first day of February Syracuse has piled up 56.9 inches of snow with a lot of the snow season still left to go.  They are still behind their average to date which is 77.6 inches of snow.

That said all of the cities are still quite a bit behind what their average snowfall should be at this time in the season.

Have a Super Bowl kind of weekend everyone 😉

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 😉

Binghamton’s Climbing the Snow Hill

Posted by The Snowman on December 30, 2012
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I just did an update on the snow stats and see that Binghamton has been making out pretty good with this snowfall.  They jumped from 4th place up to 2nd on the snow hill bumping both Rochester and Buffalo down.

After the slow start we have had the snow contest is starting to take shape and 3 of the Golden Snowball cities are within an inch of each other.  Most of us have made up quite a bit of snow last week to get closer to our normal averages for the season.  Here are the snow totals for yesterday.

Binghamton – 6.4
Syracuse – 4.7
Rochester – 4.2
Albany – 4.0
Buffalo – 2.9

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and rest them backs, that’s what I will be doing today.  Well, after I shovel one last time 😉

What a Difference a Year Makes

Posted by The Snowman on December 29, 2012
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Someone mentioned to me the other day about how nice last winter was.  Of course I replied with that depends on what you consider nice.  He then mentioned how we got most of our snow in December and then nothing after that.  I mentioned to him that most of December was pretty lame as far as snowfall went.

Just looking at the chart and last season snow stats to date it really shows how lame it really was this far into December.  With all of the cities below their average total snowfall to date, we are all blowing away last seasons totals to date now.

I think that’s what makes this contest so much fun to watch throughout the winter.  We all know that all it takes is one or two decent snow storms to change the season around and also to decide who is on top of the snow mountain.  It looks like the bell rang for round 3 looking out the window and seeing the snow come down.

Go Orange Football, Go Orange Basketball.  Can a day of sports get any better than today?  Well if Duke was to lose then yes 😉

Have a Great Day All…

Less Snow This Season Than Last Season

Posted by The Snowman on December 14, 2012
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It’s hard to believe but so far this season with the exception of Syracuse, most of us have less snow than we did last year at this time.  Good news for you snow haters but not so good news for the sledders and skiers.  I know Syracuse is close to setting a record for the longest days without at least an inch falling at one time.  I’ll have to look up and see how it’s going and what the records are for the other cities that haven’t seen an inch in a one day period so far this season..

It’s also hard to believe that Syracuse is the only city that has more than the last for the fact that they still haven’t had a day this season with at least an inch of snow and obviously neither has Rochester or Albany.  Rochester managed to slip out of the basement by the way picking up another tenth of snow since the last update 😉

I’m sure you all remember how lame the snow totals were last season with Rochester winning the Golden Snowball trophy with just 59.9 inches of snow.  Could this season be better?  That is depending on what you consider better of course?  Does better mean less snow or more snow?  For me it’s more snow and I’m hoping that things change pretty fast to get all of us back to our normal snowfall totals.  Here is how last season ended;

Rochester – 59.9
Syracuse – 50.6
Binghamton – 43.5
Buffalo – 36.7
Albany – 23.3

Have a Great weekend 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