Great Lakes snow piles up — 4 feet in places

[Robbien]

Source: MSNBC

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Relentless lake-effect storms pounded parts of northwestern Pennsylvania and upstate New York on Wednesday, with close to four feet of snow falling in the Syracuse area since the weekend and forecasters calling for more snow into Thursday.

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The National Weather Service said Wednesday morning the most snow — 47 inches — was recorded in suburban Clay. Two other upstate locations had upward of 4 feet by Wednesday morning, the weather service said: Randolph in New York's southwest corner and Laconia, near Lake Ontario's eastern end.

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Mitch Gilt, a weather service meteorologist in Binghamton, said the current weather pattern started out as a low-pressure system that swept through the Great Lakes region before stalling over eastern Canada, combined with winds out of the northwest that spawned the bands of snow blowing off lakes Erie and Ontario.

By Thursday afternoon, between 50 inches and 60 inches of snow will have fallen on some places, he said.

"It's probably going to fall somewhere in the top two or three lake-effect snow events they've had in Syracuse, at least since they've keeping records up at the airport," he said.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40570278/ns/weather/

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four feet in one day is a lot of snow

Glad it is upper Great Lakes and not lower. Sorry you guys got it though.

[stopbush]

1. I grew up in Ashtabula, OH, right on Lake Erie.

Lake-effect snow is something we saw as early as October and as late as April.

Glad to live in SoCal these days!

[Auggie]

8. I wasn't too far from you: the snowbelt of eastern Lake County

Brrrrr

[FedUpWithIt All]

11. I also grew up in Lake Co.

Friends, from there, were actually complaining tonight that they didn't get hit with the heavy snow. :)

[Auggie]

14. Snow -- possibly Lake County's only bragging right

[Doremus]

9. Lake-effect snow storm going on right now.

I was trying to get to Euclid via 271N earlier this afternoon and had to exit at Mayfield Rd. because troopers had the freeway closed down to 2 lanes.

Traffic is at a crawl everywhere in NE Ohio.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. 10 years ago, I was visiting Buffalo during a lake-effect snow event.

Never saw anything like it in my life. It was INSANE!

The roof of the HSBC (HongKong Shanghai Banking Corporation) processing center in Cheektowaga collapsed under the weight. For years after that, we referred to HSBC as "Holy Shit the Building Collapsed". LOL!

[Bandit]

3. Well I guess this proves beyond any doubt there is no Global Warming

:sarcasm:

[AlbertCat]

4. Well I guess this proves beyond any doubt there is no Global Warming

Indeed!

But of course when it gets up to 110 with no rain for weeks on end up there this summer, it will be just an interesting anomaly.... like the huge amount of the snow now. It's just so weird how these intense weather patterns keep showing up year after year.... more frequently! And there's just no climate theory that predicts that!

[madrchsod]

6. since 1871 the top 4 coldest decembers in chicago has happened in the last 5 yrs

this december could be the 5th

[NickB79]

16. Which is why it's most accurately called global climate change

Not all areas will heat up uniformly; some areas could actually see a decrease in the short term as the climate swings around wildly in an attempt to stabilize.

However, the trend has been consistently towards more record warming on a global scale.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/12/heatwave-record-temperatures-world

"World feeling the heat as 17 countries experience record temperatures

2010 sees record highs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine but also many African, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries"

[madrchsod]

5. get ready for a hell of a lot more.....

predicting up to 40 mph winds across the midwest saturday or sunday followed by very cold temps for december

[Tansy_Gold]

7. Chicago native here --

To all affected -- Stay home if you can, stay warm if you can't stay home, and please drive carefully. I remember that crap. It's nasty.


Tansy Gold, who has never once regretted moving to AZ and has never once complained about the heat not even when it was 126.

[eilen]

10. Will it ever stop fracking snowing....

Buried in the Snowbelts in a NW suburb of Syracuse, Onondaga County. Lake Ontario is about 40 minutes away, Seneca River about 4 blocks away...

They say another foot tonight.

Thank God for my neighbor's son across the street with the plow (Love you Brandon!)

[defendandprotect]

12. "Lake effect" = Global Warming ....

Wondereing how Boston is doing?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Screw Syracuse, this snow event is God's will

They beat Michigan State, so they are deserving of God's wrath.

Mumble

Grumble

Mutter

:hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

15. I read this on DU - I forget where - but it suggested re-framing "global warming"

as "global flooding" instead. THis is what I'd been observing over the last few years, even more than just temperature instability - more precipitation associated with larger storms. I definitely think that's how climate change will manifest itself, and how its effects will hit home the hardest.

[mikeytherat]

17. My hometown is Oscoda, Michigan:

Which I why I laugh at the "snow freakouts" here in the South.

mikey_the_rat