Posted by Hogwash at 63-104-225-132.focaldata.net on December 28, 2001 at 13:44:56:
In Reply to: Actually Buffalo gets dumped on like that... posted by RugMuncher on December 28, 2001 at 13:40:24:
The National Weather Service said early Friday that 68½ inches of snow – more than two-thirds of the city's yearly average – have fallen since Monday. In the 24-hour period ending 5 a.m. Friday, a near-record 33.6 inches fell.
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Buffalo is accustomed to astonishing amounts of snow from "lake effect" storms, which pick up moisture from Lake Erie. The average winter snow total is 93.5 inches.
But this week's snowfall was huge even by Buffalo standards. Large masses of cold air were siphoning moisture from the lake and dropping it in bands of snow.
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