ENJOY THE SUN WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
Written By: Scott Hetsko
Stationary high pressure has brought a nice break from Winter to Western New York. Our weather will remain mild and sunny through mid week. A slow moving storm system will finally spread clouds and rain into the area beginning in earnest on Friday. We might get a brief shower Thursday but chances are small. Periods of rain, wind will continue through Saturday which may hinder the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown. Slowly seasonable air will return to the region next week.
We're not counting out Winter just yet but perhaps the big snowfall of late February was Winter's last real punch. Time will tell!
Well, at least we got that last big storm. I have a lot of friends out in Buffalo, and they are only at 74.1" for the entire winter. They missed virtually every single storm this year, including the late February storm. But hey, I guess that's why we average several more inches a year than Buffalo, despite their name as the snowiest city in WNY.
ReplyDeleteScott,
ReplyDeleteI notice that temperatures haven't gotten out of the mid to upper 30's in Buffalo today (at KBUF), and it's even colder right in downtown Buffalo, with windchills well down into the 20's on a stiff wind. Meanwhile, Rochester has been in the 40's since mid morning and climbing to near 50 now. The lake can't possibly make THAT big of a difference can it? Is there a stationary cold front just to the west of us?
Oh yes it can! The lake temperature is around freezing and there is still a ton of ice on it. Whenever there is a WSW wind now through early June, expect BIG temperature differences near Buffalo and also our shoreline as well!
ReplyDeleteJust to add to what Scott said, I used to commute to Buffalo for work from Batavia. It would be balmy in the 70's when I left my house, and by the time I got to Buffalo, it was barely 50 with a freezing cold windchill. It was like commuting to an entirely different climate.
ReplyDeleteand think about this too...the official temperature reading for Buffalo is at the airport, which is well inland compared to the immediate Buffalo metro. I can speak first hand when I tell you that when it shows colder temps at the airport due to the lake....it's EVEN COLDER in downtown Buffalo. Just wait till later in April when it's 70 degrees in downtown Rochester and stuggling to get out of the 40's in downtown Buffalo.
Hi Scott,
ReplyDeleteCan lake effect snow happen as late in the season as late March or even early April if the 850 temps are sufficient? Or is the sun just too high in the sky, with the days to long to allow LES, even with favorable temps?
I work in southeastern Wayne County and live in Sodus Point, 1/4 mile south of the Lake Ontario shoreline. No joke...I have left work with the temp at 75 degrees and found it to be 48 degrees at home. On a May day in 2008, it was 51 at the lighthouse here and 90 in Seneca Falls. I was texting back and forth with a buddy that day, comparing temps!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a wee lad listening to Lowell Thomas and the News/Weather from "high atop the Rockies", he would always report that the coldest temperature in the USA occurred in Fraser, Colorado. I heard that the Fraser Chamber of Comm finally refused to release the temperature because they didn't like the negative publicity. Is my memory accurate? Where is the coldest spot in the US?
ReplyDeleteI've always heard "Embarass" or "International Falls" both in Minnesota as fighting over the coldest location in the nation.
ReplyDeleteI know they call International Falls the "Icebox of the Nation." But last I heard, Embarass is ever so slightly colder than I.F. Either way you slice it, that whole area is about as cold as it gets in the U.S, aside from high atop snow capped mountain peeks, but nobody lives in those remote areas anyway...not even trees lol.
ReplyDeleteHere are some interesting stats on cold places in the US:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/coldest.php