Oh Wow Check Out These Insane Snow Totals from This Winter
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the activation of the National Guard Saturday to help with clean up in the historic and deadly snow storm that battered parts of western New York.
Hochul also announced that she’s filing a request “for a Federal Emergency Disaster Declaration to unlock critical funds” to support the state’s response efforts.
There are 150 National Guard members on the ground in the badly-impacted southtowns, or the southern portion of Erie County, home to Buffalo.
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Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said the National Guard was on the ground Saturday afternoon to pickup and deliver people whom require dialysis, according to a tweet.
Intense snowfall continued overnight in the region, hitting Buffalo hard, Daniel Neaverth, the Erie County Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Services Commissioner, said in a news conference Saturday. The rate of the snowfall is up to 3 inches per hour, he said.
The snowfall will continue to impact the Great Lakes region this weekend, with lake-effect snow, which occurs when arctic air races across the relatively milder waters of the Great Lakes.
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Erie County received the brunt of the snowfall, where two men died on Friday after suffering “cardiac events” due to shoveling or snow blowing. In Orchard Park, southeast of Buffalo, almost 6 1/2 feet of snow had fallen by 7a.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Hamburg, where the roof of a bowling alley collapsed due to the weight of the heavy, wet snow, received over six feet of snow, while southwest Blasdell had over five feet of snow.
There were 88 crashes in Erie County and 280 people had to be rescued, Hochul said in a press conference on Saturday.
A little over 200 customers don't have power in Erie County due to the snowstorm, according to poweroutage.us. This number has gone down from 998 customers who didn't have power Saturday morning.
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Buffalo has had about 30 inches of snowfall, according to the National Weather Service. The daily maximum snowfall record in the city was also broken, with 16.1 inches of snowfall in one day on Saturday. The previous record of 7.6 inches in one day was set in 2014.
Mayor Byron Brown says snowfall is coming to an end early Sunday morning, but the city may receive up to 10 inches before then.
Unfortunately it looks like more snow is coming, Brown said at a news conference Saturday afternoon. We anticipate more snow to fall, roughly predicted, 8 to another 10 inches of snow across the city of Buffalo, ending somewhere around 1 o'clock in the morning.
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Sunday’s NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Cleveland Browns was moved to Detroit. The team shared a video of quarterback Josh Allen walking to a plane to head to Detroit Saturday evening.
The heavy lake-effect snow is expected to shift north and through Buffalo on Saturday, impacting the Niagara Falls area Saturday afternoon. The strongest bands will shift south Saturday night into Sunday, with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour anticipated.
An additional 8 to 16 inches of snow is possible, with some isolated locations picking up an additional 12 to 25 inches across the Oswego County area.
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Snow will begin to subside Sunday night into Monday. Strong wind gusts up to 40 mph will also be possible, creating extreme snow drifts and near-zero visibility.
About 4 million are under lake-effect alerts stretching from Cleveland to Watertown, NY. Most alerts will expire Sunday afternoon, but a few will linger for the Oswego area into Monday.
A travel ban was set for most of Erie County, including the entire city of Buffalo, as of Saturday morning, according to a tweet from Poloncarz. The ban will be downgraded to a travel advisory in the eastern, northern and western portions of Buffalo at 2p.m. Saturday due to progress being made in the city, but will remain in the hard-hit south, according to Brown.
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If you come out, you run the risk of getting stuck and really hindering our plowing operation and our snow removal operation, warned Brown.
So far, New York State Police have issued 392 tickets to people for violating the driving ban, mostly to commercial trucks, according to Hochul.
A state of emergency remains in place in Buffalo as well as in 11 counties in the western and the northwestern parts of the state near Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.Binghamton, N.Y., set a new record with more than 3 feet of snow as of Thursday morning. At 6:40 a.m., the Binghamton Airport reported 39.1 inches of snow and another spot in Binghamton reported 41.0 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
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Endicott reported 40.5 inches of snow Thursday morning and nearby locations Vestal and Johnson City also saw up to 37.5 inches of snowfall.
Reports of 33-36” of snow west of Binghamton as of 4 a.m. Could be one of the biggest snowfalls in history in this area. #NYwx https://t.co/l18pbFSwmC— Brian Donegan (@WxBrianD) December 17, 2020
This is what 37 of snow in #Binghamton, NY looks like this morning! #NYwx https://t.co/qVJzxsNDKY— Beth Carpenter | TDS Weather (@B_Carp01) December 17, 2020
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Near Binghamton, NY here .. nearly 3 ft. and still snowing. My nephew in the road walking to the town garage to plow at 2 am. It's still snowing! pic.twitter.com/JmG8SN0OyW— ~ Lisa 🌊 🇺🇸🇮🇹 (@lisapr1113) December 17, 2020
Video of my Dad leaving for work around 2:30 am to go plow! Absolutely incredible snowfall amounts. (West of Binghamton, NY; Taft Heights in Endwell, NY Elevation 1251 ft.) #nywx @WeatherNation @weatherchannel #SnowStorm2020 pic.twitter.com/EBCWDc3UMi— Joseph Champaign (@JosephChampaign) December 17, 2020
The weather service upgraded and expanded winter weather alerts across Upstate New York on Wednesday, issuing winter storm warnings for much of the Southern Tier and into the Adirondacks due to a costal storm’s shift west. Some parts were seeing rates of more than 4 inches an hour overnight, making driving nearly impossible.
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Some pictures of snowfall amounts here west of Binghamton, NY! Absolutely insanity, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen this much snow! #nywx @weatherchannel @WBNGWeather @NWSBinghamton @WeatherNation (Taft Heights in Endwell, NY) Time: 3:05 am Elevation 1251 ft. pic.twitter.com/eI1LCsuQVJ— Joseph Champaign (@JosephChampaign) December 17, 2020
This is insane! No sleep for me tonight. Taft Heights, NY (West of Binghamton)Elevation 1251 ft. @NWSBinghamton @weatherchannel @WeatherNation @WBNGWeather #nywx Nearly 30” of snow and still falling 3, 4, 5 inches per hour! Time: 2:55am pic.twitter.com/xPlYm6H62o— Joseph Champaign (@JosephChampaign) December 17, 2020
If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Can it really snow too much? What is too much snow?
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These are questions that skiers and boarders often ponder on lift chairs or over a beer. If you live in a big city then a couple of inches is too much. It makes traffic come to a crawl, sidewalks become impassible and in 24 hours the once pristine, fluffy white magic is now a shade between dog piss and grey. Ugh!! I personally think there can never be enough snow as long as I’m not driving in it.
Well, let’s take a look at some really big snow events over the years in North America and the rest of the world:
The Pacific Northwest region of North America, which includes Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, is the snowiest region of the continent. In many areas of Alaska and British Columbia, there are no meteorological stations, so we can only imagine how much falls during a given season. In Mount Rainier National Park, at the Paradise Ranger Station, 1, 224.5 inches (102 feet) of snow fell between February 19, 1971, and February 18, 1972. That is equal to the height of a 10-story building.
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Most skiers know about the phenomenal snow year of 1998-1999 in Washington state’s Mt Baker ski area. 1, 140 inches (95 feet) of snow fell to the ground over the course of the ski season. That amount of snow would cover the White House by 25 feet. As we shall see, that was far from an isolated event.
Thompson Pass enjoyed or suffered through, depending on your opinion, a great or horrific year in the winter of 1952-1953. That’s when 974.1 inches (81 feet) fell from heaven. What does 81 feet of snow look like? Well, take a 73-foot tractor-trailer combo, which blasts down interstate 90 at 75 miles an hour, stand it on its end, and it would be under 8 feet of snow.
The 2016/2017 ski season gave us record-breaking snowfall totals. They called it SNOWMAGEDDON, Janu-BURIED, Febru-BURIED, Miracle March, Awesome April, May Madness, and even June & July blew everybody’s minds. Many resorts extended their seasons. Squaw Valley stayed open past the 4th of July for the first time in their history.
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In 1963, that same area saw 78 inches fall in one 24 hour period. At this point, Alaska, Colorado and possibly Buffalo, New York are all claiming to have set the 24-hour record. Some Buffalonians are still digging out from the recent freak lake effect storm which occurred on November 19, 2014. What do you do with almost 7 feet of snow in
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