Crazy Ridiculous Snow (snowfall, records, night, inches)

[cjoseph]

What is the heaviest snowfall rate you have ever experienced? Last night in Buffalo, 28 inches fell in a little over 6 hours. Snowfall rates averaged 4.5 inches an hour, but they certainly pushed over 5 at times

[Cambium]

Insanity is right.


Here's Champion, NY (TugHill section) yesterday from lake Ontario snow effect. North of Syracuse.


https://twitter.com/TinaOlley/status/816990638336053248

[Cambium]

Insanity again.


West Seneca, NY just southeast of Buffalo.. WTF


2:45pm







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4:45pm





https://twitter.com/cmbg42123/status...902914/photo/1

[Cambium]

As far as me.... Nobody actually keeps track of that unless you have records of hourly OBS from your backyard with each snow event. But I remember and have video of a couple of times for the heavy events.


I experienced 3-5" snow rates a few times and it was incredible. (Nor'Easters) Was only for an hour or so though. Sometimes in spurts. But It's rare to get a constant snowband to sit over the area like that with those rates.


Lake Effect is another thing when winds are steady at a certain direction and just feeding instability from the lake hour after hour.