Rochester NY's first big snow

[Planetsnow]

Hi everyone!

I sympathizee wth those of you yet to see much snow. Even here in Rochester, we are way behind schedule for this winter. Come on over to ROC, there's plenty of snow to share. Here's the local forecast:

13WHAM Weather Forecast
**Lake Effect Snow Warning for Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, and Ontario Counties through tonight**
**Lake Effect Snow Advisory for Wyoming, Livingston, and Genesee Counties through tonight**

Today:
Snow showers and lake effect snow. Accumulations of 3-6" with higher amounts in persistent bands. Temperatures falling through the teens.
High: 10-15 Winds: N/NW 5-15

Tonight:
Wind chill advisory in effect. Cold with areas of lake effect snow. Additional accumulations of 3-6". Wind chills 15-20 below zero.
Low: 0-5 Winds: N 10-20

Tomorrow:
Snow showers and areas of lake effect snow. Additional accumulations likely. Total accumulations approaching 2 feet in most persistent bands.
High: 10-15

Wednesday:
Windy with snow.
High: 25-30 Low: 10-15

Thursday:
Mostly cloudy with snow showers likely.
High: 18-23 Low: 12-17

Friday:
Cold with snow showers likely.
High: 10-15 Low: 0-5

Again, I don't mean to tease or boast. I wish all of you snowlovers could share this with me. Don't worry, before this winter is done, you will be dumped! Take care.

[jimvb]

Did you hear about the hurricane-force winds in Rochester? 77 mph recorded at the airport. Four-foot tree falls on Excellus woman, killing her. House damaged in Irondequoit by tree. 60,000 without power. I wonder if my mother's house in Greece is OK.

But I note this. Rochester today got higher sustained winds (47 mph vs 38 mph) and higher gusts (77 mph vs 72 mph) than Richmond, Virginia got with Hurricane Isabel in 2003, but 415,000 customers in the Richmond area (95%) lost power during Isabel, and only 12% (60,000 out of about 500,000) did in Rochester today. So why more problems in Richmond, then, and is there something wrong with Virginia Power?

[Extremeweatherguy]

38mph sustained and gusts to 72mph is no hurricane...I can't believe that 95% of the people lost power in Richmond due to that. something must be wrong with your power in virginia. I don't even think 95% of Orlando lost power with Hurricane Charley, and in Orlando (where I lived at the time) had gusts to 100-110mph. Hopefully they fixed your power system after that!

[nystate]

Well, I'm glad ROC is finally getting a taste of what SYR and ART have been dealing with all winter.

Enjoy it!

[Stephanie]

I'm surprised that this is Rochester's first big snow of the season! I guess that the winds weren't pointed in the right direction to give you the lake-effect snow.

Be careful!

[southerngale]

38mph sustained and gusts to 72mph is no hurricane...I can't believe that 95% of the people lost power in Richmond due to that. something must be wrong with your power in virginia. I don't even think 95% of Orlando lost power with Hurricane Charley, and in Orlando (where I lived at the time) had gusts to 100-110mph. Hopefully they fixed your power system after that!

Perhaps it was the duration of the winds during Isabel? Just a thought.

Everyone, and I do mean everyone in many counties in Southeast Texas and East Texas lost power during Hurricane Rita. I don't blame Energy though. Rita just caused extensive damage to Energy's transmission system. Hurricane Rita at its peak took out of service 82% of Entergy's Texas transmission lines and 38% of the transmission lines in SW Louisiana, including all of the lines west of Lafayette. Rita caused more damage than Katrina to Entergy's transmission and distribution systems, and power plants.

Anyway, I wish I could share some of that snow, Planetsnow. If I change my nickname to southernsnow, will it come?

[WindRunner]

38mph sustained and gusts to 72mph is no hurricane...I can't believe that 95% of the people lost power in Richmond due to that. something must be wrong with your power in virginia. I don't even think 95% of Orlando lost power with Hurricane Charley, and in Orlando (where I lived at the time) had gusts to 100-110mph. Hopefully they fixed your power system after that!

A longer duration of the winds, as well as heavy rain and a lot of lightning were definately some factors in the difference.

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

We had sustained winds of 30 mph, with many peak gusts of 50 mph, here last night, and most of today. The highest I registered was a roughly 10 minute period with sustained winds of 40 mph, with a couple peak gusts to 60 mph, in the predawn hours. Needles to say it is quite windy, not to mention cold, with a high of only 13 F

[Planetsnow]

Well, we still truly have not had a really big snow here..despite some LES. At at time, no more than a few inches.....then it all melts in a day. We missed the big blizzard in Feb with nothing....and compared to Buf and Syr, we are much less with snowfall........