Just after 11 p.m. Saturday, the National Weather Service in Buffalo issued a special statement, warning of a band of heavy snow accompanied by high winds, creating a "burst of snow" in western New York state.
By Sunday morning, winds shifted more westerly, meaning the heaviest lake-effect snow bands moved south of Buffalo impacting areas from Cleveland to Dunkirk, New York. Buffalo was no longer under a lake-effect snow warning but remained under a winter weather advisory through Sunday evening for "blowing snow."
While the Buffalo area is used to dealing with heavy snowfall, this storm is delivering "much more than we usually get," Mayor Byron Brown told CNN on Saturday. Continue scrolling to check out the images we at Bored Panda gathered to show just how extreme the situation looks.
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The USA really needs to invest more money in disaster relief. The way things are going, we can expect some major climate catastrophe almost every year.
A good servant knows to appropriately attend to the needs of their god. This human will live another day.
Memories. Ah, memories. I'm 5-10. We have pics of me in snow to my chin when I was a mere 5-8. ( In metric, 1.73 meters tall at five-foot-eight-inches.) And, to be honest, the snow kept the wind off you, so it was kinda better than no-snow-and-wind.
Can confirm. I live in the Northtowns of the Buffalo area. Less than 5-6 inches. My coworker who is down by the stadium had over 3 feet and it was still coming down last I talked to him. Plus, he lost power.
As a native of the Up North, I love thepics people get of the systems/cells moving through. You can be fine and then, boom! Whiteout! (Which we sang to the tune of Wipeout, the old surf song.)
What is he doing? Did he get caught outside when it started snowing? Cause I don't see any tracks 😳
🎶 Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, and since we've no place to go, please dear God stop letting it snow!🎶
That would be so fun ngl (rolling off the roof not shoveling the snow)
Born & raised Ohio near PA line so I've seen snow. Buffalo is ridiculous
I once flew on Christmas Day in the early 1990's... they had to de-ice the wings before we took off from Lester B. Pearson in Toronto.
I'd LOVE to have this in TN! As long as I have power and groceries I'm perfectly happy being trapped at home, lol
And don't drink that stuff until you're done shovelling and are sitting back in the house, warm and dry.
For the uninitiated, 'lake effect' is the original band of moisture coming in, which picks up more moisture and speed from the lake, joins with the prevailing wind and dumps it on the designated shore. (That would be us.) Ice on the lake limits how much water the snow/rain band can pick up, and how far inland the resulting mess will travel.
I read in an earlier post that Orchard Park got 77" in 24 hours, breaking the US history record...?
Would it have helped if the loader used his er bucket (at rear) to add something to brace? Or would it not have had enough clearence? Or would the winch not permit it to be use that way? I don't know anything about the vehicle so just curious
grab a book and some tea and enjoy! used to wish for snow days... now i wish for the state to close the roads 'cause it's the only way work shuts down lol... doesn't happen nearly as often as i'd like :( could look like the planet hoth outside and they're all "oh we salted the roads last night, you'll be fine!"
Nuthin' historic about this storm. This time they took action before it, not after.
Wales????? Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch more like.
About ten minutes after it hit we were there. And it carried on for another two days.
Load More Replies...For context to my fellow Pandas: I grew up on the US Canadian border and spent a lot of time in the "snow belt" regions of both. It's not unusual for Buffalo to get a lot of snow. It usually stops after a meter or so to give people breathing space. (For the US Pandas, that's roughly 39 inches.)
We got a little snow and ice one year here in NC. Shut everything down. We had transplant people from New York asking why the sanders and snowplows weren't out clearing things. I replied with "because they don't want to invest huge amounts of money in something that only happens every 7-8 years." On that same note, I had NC people asking me what the metal tubes were in front of the tires of Washington State School buses. I said they were sanders to keep the buses from getting stuck on snowy hills. I'm just glad I now live where snow is a rare occasion.
Load More Replies...You know something's wrong when you're in Minnesota and there's only 2 inches of snow...
About ten minutes after it hit we were there. And it carried on for another two days.
Load More Replies...For context to my fellow Pandas: I grew up on the US Canadian border and spent a lot of time in the "snow belt" regions of both. It's not unusual for Buffalo to get a lot of snow. It usually stops after a meter or so to give people breathing space. (For the US Pandas, that's roughly 39 inches.)
We got a little snow and ice one year here in NC. Shut everything down. We had transplant people from New York asking why the sanders and snowplows weren't out clearing things. I replied with "because they don't want to invest huge amounts of money in something that only happens every 7-8 years." On that same note, I had NC people asking me what the metal tubes were in front of the tires of Washington State School buses. I said they were sanders to keep the buses from getting stuck on snowy hills. I'm just glad I now live where snow is a rare occasion.
Load More Replies...You know something's wrong when you're in Minnesota and there's only 2 inches of snow...
