CHECK THIS OUT!!!

[vbhoutex]

I'm cutting and pasting from Weather Matrix, where I am a member.

INCREDIBLE SHOTS OF THE LAKE EFFECT SNOWS FROM THE LAST TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

The latest total for Parish, NY was 69" at noon today:
http://www.weathermatrix.net/archive/sn ... /1244.html

Here is some information from Oswego NY
http://www.oswegodailynews.com/homearti ... ork=oswego
There are lots of photos on that page and here:
http://www.oswegodailynews.com/homearti ... ork=fulton

And here are more up-to-date radar loops:

(Quick Download):
<http://www.rap.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/neilley/NIDS_archive?Radar=TYX&Composite=NONE&Start_date=20040129&Start_time=00&Duration=3000&Frequency=60&Parameter=1>

(Long Download):
<http://www.rap.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/neilley/NIDS_archive?Radar=TYX&Composite=NONE&Start_date=20040129&Start_time=00&Duration=3000&Frequency=0&Parameter=1>


At 10:48 AM 1/30/2004, Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) 2 wrote:
>Radar Loops:
>
>(Quick
>Download):
><http://www.rap.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/neilley/NIDS_archive?Radar=TYX&Composite=NONE&Start_date=20040129&Start_time=00&Duration=2160&Frequency=60&Parameter=1>
>(Long Download):
><http://www.rap.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/neilley/NIDS_archive?Radar=TYX&Composite=NONE&Start_date=20040129&Start_time=00&Duration=2160&Frequency=0&Parameter=1>
>
>NWS Report (partial quotes below):
>http://www.weathermatrix.net/archive/snowreports/1237.html
>
>...INCREDIBLE SNOW BLITZ CONTINUES OVER OSWEGO COUNTY...
>
>A FLOW OF COLD ARCTIC AIR MOVING OVER THE UNFROZEN WATERS OF LAKE
>ONTARIO CONTINUES TO PRODUCE A NARROW BAND OF INTENSE SNOW THIS
>MORNING. THE WIND TRAJECTORY HAS REMAINED NEARLY STATIONARY FOR 36
>HOURS NOW...SO THE LAKE SNOW PLUME HAS ONLY MOVED SLIGHTLY DURING
>THIS PERIOD...AND WITH RATES OF 3 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR WITHIN
>IT...SECTIONS OF OSWEGO COUNTY HAVE BEEN SMOTHERED WITH AS MUCH AS
>FIVE FEET OF SNOW SINCE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON!
>
>OSWEGO COUNTY IS PRONE TO HEAVY LAKE SNOWS OFF ONTARIO...BUT THE
>AMOUNTS OF THE PAST WEEK TO TEN DAYS HAVE BEEN ASTOUNDING.
>
>A FEW SPECIFIC REPORTS...
>
>FROM THE CURRENT EVENT (WED AFTERNOON THRU THIS MORNING)...
>.PARISH...... 63 INCHES
>.WEST MONROE. 50 INCHES
>.CONSTANTIA... 45 INCHES
>.OSWEGO....... 32 INCHES
>.FULTON....... 26 INCHES
>
>MUCH OF THE COUNTY HAS RECEIVED OVER 100 INCHES FOR THE MONTH...OVER
>DOUBLE THE NORMAL.
>
>THE SNOWBAND HAS DRIFTED NORTH THIS MORNING AND MAY GIVE SOME OF
>THESE AREAS A BREAK...BUT SHOULD SHIFT SOUTH AGAIN LATER TODAY AND
>TONIGHT.
>
>MEDIA ARTICLE:
>
><http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--bc-upstatesnow0130jan30,0,7093064.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire>
>
>"ULTON, N.Y. -- Residents were measuring the snow Friday morning in feet,
>not inches, in communities along Lake Ontario's eastern shore, where lake
>effect squalls left some areas under nearly five feet of snow.
>
>The highest official total came from Parrish, 30 miles north of Syracuse,
>where 54 inches fell during a 32-hour period ending at midnight.
>
>In Fulton, 22 inches piled up during a five-hour span Thursday morning. The
>storm left a total of 29 inches _ on top of the 38 inches that fell a week
>ago.
>
>"This is about as deep as I can remember," said Paul Cardinali, a retired
>earth science teacher who's measured the snowfall in Fulton since 1972.
>
>State police said driving remained hazardous even on major highways. On
>Thursday, a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 81 was closed for several hours
>because of heavy snow and gusting winds."

[pawlee]

dude this winter is just off the hook! p

[Anonymous]

That does it.

I have got to find a way to spend a winter in that Lake Effect Snow region.

Fulton got 70 inches in 2001-2002, when most of us baked in 70-degree weather.

This year they are breaking snow records, even by their standards.

I love that place with all my heart, and I have got to find a way to spend a whole winter there!!

I won't use a blower. I'll dig snow with my shovel. I'll take magnificent jebwalks among the huge banks of pristine snow!!

That place is unimaginable!! For me, that place IS Heaven!


-JEB!!!!!

[WEATHER53]

I often wonder in these events how compressed or narrow are the delineation extremes. For example, in Parish, does one area get 24" of snow and an area just 5 miles to the south get only 3 or 4 or do you have to go a further distance to find that pronounced of an accumulation diiferentiation?

[Guest]

Sometime 53 it can make a big difference in only a matter of a couple of miles with lake effect. Kinda what you said there. So yea it does happen. Happens here often. Im usually on the low end though because of my location to the lake.

[vbhoutex]

I often wonder in these events how compressed or narrow are the delineation extremes. For example, in Parish, does one area get 24" of snow and an area just 5 miles to the south get only 3 or 4 or do you have to go a further distance to find that pronounced of an accumulation diiferentiation?

On TWC tonight I saw a close up radar of the Lake Effect snow band. It couldn't have been more than 10 miles or so wide. I remember some reports from the Buffalo area where they were getting blasted downtown and just a few miles away on the S side of town they were getting flurries. So my presumption is that the answer is yes it apparently is a sharply delineated area many times.

[Stormsfury]

Such events with a consistent wind that doesn't deviate for hours on end can end up with those impressive snowfall totals, and basically speaking it's a line of chance ... and the wind direction alone dictates who the big winners and losers are, much like watching summertime thunderstorms drench a small area, and just a few miles away, nothing.

SF