Buffalo NY and western NY hammered by snow yesterday!

[RWilliams]

Originally Posted by kitty71

Just wondering if Rochester got hammered too?

My mom is not too sure about us moving there, and she INSISTS that Rochester got the big storm too. I told her I didn't think so... her neighbor drives down once a week for business from Ontario... (To Buffalo, I might add) he said the whole I 90 was closed... that does pass almost right through Rochester...

I'm just interested... (and I kinda want to prove my mom wrong, LOL) if anyone lives there, please tell me!

You can prove your mom wrong. There was no snow in Rochester last week, but she is right that the thruway was closed from Rochester almost to the PA state line. :-)

[I'minformed2]

Yeah, what she said. Rochester got no snow, and in fact the sun was out and it was in the 50's the day that Buffalo got hammered with the snow. That's the way the lake effect works some times. My entire family lives in the Rochester area and said that with the exception of a few fluries in the far western suburbs (Sweden, Hamlin, Hilton, etc. ) that didn't even stick.... there has been no snow so far in Rochester.

[kitty71]

AHA!

Thanks guys... I have been trying to convince her that the weather in Rochester is not the same as the Buffalo area, which of course has the bad rep of being covered in snow all year long.

[I'minformed2]

yeah, WNY gets charecterized as having lousy weather year round and people weating snowboots and mittens in July..... not even close. Upstate NY has some of the most beautiful weather in the country from may through october. Christmas time and January are times that I really like having a lot of snow on the ground, and miss that terribly. I'll admit that the snow gets old by late february/ early march.... but by April, snow's done and it starts to turn green again. This is if you are talking about the urban/suburban areas in the major upstate metros (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany).... in the rural areas, the snow adds to the beauty of the landscape IMO, it doesn't turn brown and grey like it does in the metros.

[kitty71]

Well, I am originally from the Canadian prairies, so believe me when I say I know about snow getting "old" by March! I have to say that there, before we got nice weather and knew for sure that it wouldn't snow again, it was mid to late April. So, it does sound like the winters are at least slightly milder in Rochester. I suspect that volume-wise Rochester will get more snow than I am used to. Contrary to popular opinion, the prairies don't get huge quantities of snow... what you do get just stays around all winter. We really never got hammered with these huge snowfalls - this happens more in eastern Canada, and probably also NY.

No biggie to me - it only snowed twice here last year (southen PA - Lancaster) and although I liked not having the boots out, I wouldn't have minded some pretty snow. Plus, at risk of sounding totally weird, I think there is something sort of exciting about big snows - NOT to the point of losing power, however!

[I'minformed2]

Yeah, Buffalo and Rochester get snow a lot, but it's not like it's always on the ground. It usually gets above freezing long enough for most of the snow to melt within a few days of falling after a big snow. There was a solid week when Rochester was in the 50's in January this year, it was one of their mildest winters ever and they got half the snow they got in winter 2004-2005. It all just depends literaly on which way the wind blows!