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Stunning Photos Of Record Snow Covering Upstate New York: 100 Total Inches Of Snow Expected
As previously reported, the anticipated Polar Vortex 2.0 has struck, pushing temperatures in all 50 states to below freezing, while heavy snow prompted a state of emergency in western New York and contributed to the deaths of four people. According to Reuters, it was the coldest November morning across the country since 1976, according to Weather Bell Analytics, a meteorologist consulting firm. It remains to be seen how many GDP percentage points were wiped out as a result, unless of course, this time it will be different from last winter. Typically, such cold is not seen until late December through February.
But it was the situation in upstate New York, especially around Buffalo and parts of Erie County, where things got most dire and where 60 inches (1.5 m) of snow accumulated, with more falling, said Steven Welch of the National Weather Service near Buffalo. Snow fell at a rate of up to five inches (13 cm) an hour and some areas approached the U.S. record for 24-hour snowfall totals of 76 inches, or over 6 feet, the NWS said.
The record cumulative snowfall through Wednesday is shown in the image below:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for 10 counties. National Guard troops were deployed to help residents cope with the storm.
The good news, according to CBS, is that the Tuesday storm is fading away: deputy Erie County Executive Rich Tobe told reporters Wednesday morning that the storm had begun to move toward Buffalo's northern suburbs, and was expected to leave 2-5 more inches of snow in its wake. But he said the break would be short-lived for the hard-hit southern Buffalo suburbs, where forecasters were calling for more snow on Thursday, as much as three feet more, for a total of up to 100 inches over four days - a year's worth for the region. Still, there should be an 18 hour window to clear roads, he said.
And then it is all set to flip again, with the current freezing period expected to be followed by a "dramatic warming trend this weekend," raising the possibility of flooding from melting snow.
One of the main culprits for the heavy snow accumulation was the so called "lake-effect" which created a stark divide: In downtown Buffalo and north of the city, there was a mere dusting of precipitation, while in parts south, snow was everywhere. The snow band that brought the snow was very much evident throughout the day as gray clouds persistently hovered over the southern part of the city. The band was so apparent that the wall of snow could be seen from a mile away.
A dramatic time-lapse of the snow-wall can be seen in the video below:
But nothing compares to the photos on the ground as shocked residents woke up to find themselves literally burried under 6 or more feet of snow. Here is a sample of what they saw on Tuesday morning courtesy of Albany Meteorologist Greg Pollak:
OOOOF! MT @EdRussoWSBT: This is what snowed in really means. Pic:Jessica Marie in West Senaca NY via @GregPollak: pic.twitter.com/DHu0ZTNa1Q
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) November 19, 2014
Imagine opening the door to this... This is a shot from Buffalo, NY Tuesday...#lakeeffect pic.twitter.com/Y6zmqlfPGU
— Greg Pollak (@GregPollak) November 19, 2014
INCREDIBLE! RT @TrainerAmyIndy: @NWSIndianapolis
Friend in Buffalo opened her garage door and it looked like this: pic.twitter.com/SBFFaihGQO”
— Greg Pollak (@GregPollak) November 19, 2014
Neighbors helping fix the door that was smashed in by the lake effect snow in Cheektowaga... pic.twitter.com/ynPgUQ93Jt
— Greg Pollak (@GregPollak) November 19, 2014
50 inches of snow in 24 hours? Useful. #BuffaloSnow pic.twitter.com/2tiMQXGOxg
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) November 19, 2014
Brilliant!
“@g_meslin: Resilient Buffalonians, making the best of a difficult situation.
#snowvember #BuffaloSnow pic.twitter.com/FNI87R6Gck”
— Mike Redding (@ReddingWriting) November 19, 2014
#BuffaloSnow #buffaloblizzard2014 Buffalo braves the storm; Visiting my sister, I was in the '77 storm; this worse pic.twitter.com/WWPVpQwEUv
— Pamela Falk (@PamelaFalk) November 19, 2014
If today has got you down just remember one thing; at least you're not in Buffalo! 70 INCHES! #BuffaloSnow pic.twitter.com/X9LYnL75uS
— Chris (@COverholster) November 19, 2014
NY State Thruway in Buffalo this morning! #BuffaloSnow pic.twitter.com/3bKjr1f3WT
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) November 19, 2014
Buffalo, NY was hit by snow so intense it looked like a wall, leaving up to 60 inches (1.5 meters). #BuffaloSnow pic.twitter.com/MoKsOg18PI
— JRehling (@JRehling) November 19, 2014
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And we have insane socially educated liberals rewriting science.
When the Liberals try to promote their lies, climate or otherwise, the new term is: "Gruberian" conspiracy or you have been "Grubered" when the lie is in action... For example black folks have been Grubered into believing liberals care about them.. This lie was a Gruberian conspiracy.. See how that works..
Heard it here first folks....
I escaped the upper plains for the gulf a week ago. It's cold (to some) at night but I have been laying in the sun once it hits 50s, proving to onlookers what they already suspected, I am thoroughly insane.
Yep, locals wearing winter coats and us with shorts and t-shirts when it dips into the low 60's.
dupe.
And we haven't started winter yet.
I think I just saw a pack of saber tooth tigers chasing a mastadon down my street.
Well Duh, you live in Bedrock.
Right?
...twitch...twitch...
The ultra-liberals will be pushing for multi-million dollar grants to prove this was due to global warming.
Al Gore will fly in with his fuel burning/polluting private jet to be the MC.
It was proved 30 years ago
Somewhat OT -
Looking at http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/index_loop.php at about 9:15 Eastern:
Is that California getting some water? Yeay!
Yup, just enough to make the morning commute slippery. But we'll take whatever rain we can get.
We need a snow czar.
Good job for the old mayor of DC
Marion didn't blow the snow, he melted it.
Exactly what is needed
Every City has a Snow Czar... but not all Russian, not all know how to party, and some are CIA Assholes who just act like Dicks and fu** with you.
Not sure what the F' you are saying
Delete your ZH account please.
Dont give michael bloomberg any ideas he may come back to officeu
Did democrats and the brownshirt bureaucracy approve the posting of these photos?
What a bunch of wimps! When Daddy Loki was a child he had to walk to school thru 3 meters of snow and ice going to school and coming home … going up hill in both directions.
Nobody can understand how we can live in Phoenix!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
after seeing that, I will never complain about a florida summer ever again
If the great lakes were down on water over that past 28 years, this should help regress back to the mean. Bullish Duluth shipping.
If your shipping fleet are all icebreakers sure..
That snow CAME from the great lakes.
Snow doesn't kill.
Obombercare kills.
GLOBAL WARMING !!! BITCHEZ don't deny it ...
somebody kick AL GORE in the BALLS .... many times !!!
Global warming my arse!
Most cliche internet comment of the day! Congrats!
This is outrageous. We must create and pass a Freedom From Excessive Snow Act and build a large gubermit bureaucracy to run it. It's for the children.
And yet...
http://cci-reanalyzer.org/DailySummary/
Snow doesn't kill, AMNESTY kills
BREAKING! Report: Obama to sign executive order on amnesty on Friday in Vegas!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-report-obama-to-sign-executive-order-on-amnesty-on-friday-in-vegas/
you're all illegal
http://youtu.be/knHE31FtJww
Hitler on Global warming fraud
"But the warming is causing the cooling." LOL, love it.
What cooling?
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.html
2010 and 2005 tied for warmest years EVER on record
"the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2009, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880."
Sunny, and I got my air conditoner on here in Florida. Think I'll head to the beach today, there might be a bit of a breeze, I better bundle up.
No heat or aircon on in house. Wandering around the house wearing shorts. Mid 50 today, back up to 79 next week. You best bundle up, might catch Ebola flu.. LOL
Sending my love from Charleston, SC
I'd rather be homeless in Buffalo than live in Florida.
Start volunteering snow shovel digging or build yourself a Buffalo igloo. Florida is a great place. Not a fan of east coast, love the Gulf of Mexico side.
The poisoned side soaked in corexit?
FSB, I downvoted you... Cannot afford a Winter shack in FL YET... My inner envious liberal reared its head momentarily. I stapled his ears, kicked his ass and shoved him back in the closet.
During the Winter of 1948/49, people were burning their furniture. The snow was over telephone poles. Above train engines. Operation Haylift:
http://www.mccookgazette.com/story/1601243.html
Look, Al Gore was born 3/31/1948.... Snow be upon him... Once the hot air started to flow from his silver spoon filled piehole global warming err, climate change began, who can deny it?
ALL caused by global warming!
Additional moisture for rain & snow from humidity increases where it's hot for global warming - in the summer - which it is right now in the Southern Hemisphere - is expected from global warming. Been saying that for 30 years, not sure how you didn't get the memo.
Unless all your memos come from Koch Industries...
Obama will save us all.
Simply have him sign an Executive Order outlawing snow.
Obama is going to send drones to man handle the control of jet stream terrorist.
That snow looks like it is pretty heavy with moisture, I hope for there sake they don't get more events like this this winter. Probably a good idea to clear out at least 15 feet from structures. A quick spring thaw could be a disaster.
It's not a so called "lake effect", it IS lake effect.
In Central China, a balmy 15C today.
Yeah, but it smells like shit and coal dust
Listen.
Guess what temp in Bangalore, India?
I don't know what is the temp of a freshly dropped deuce?
Geoengineering at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvdP2nCPbAU
We need to keep this snow talk quiet…or next…it will be ObamaWeather:
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If you like your weather you can keep your weather…
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There will be executive orders to route the snow back to California where it will melt…
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A snow czar will be appointed to keep snow to reasonable levels…
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All snow jobs will be blamed on Republicans…
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New carbon taxes will made to limit future snow falls…
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Al Gore will collect snow and send it to needy polar bears…
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Solar plants will be built in upstate N.Y. to power electric fans to blow the snow back to California…
-Excess snow will be melted, stored in containers and sent to all illegal alien families…
Listen.
You forgot about the "FREE" Obama phones for the polar bears.
ObamaSleds!
Folks in Buffalo............tough SOBs.
Actually, they're just morons for living in a place as shitty as Buffalo.
Amnesty for the snow buffalo!
omg f'ing horrible
This isn't Twitter you fucking retard, stop posting like you're on it.
Oh, no, winter come!
Wow...weather...how interesting.
zzzz
Listen.
STFU idiot! You are the stupidest one on The Hedge and no one likes your comments!
"no one likes your comments!"
Fuck you, Mowgli. No one speaks for me except ME.
Where are all the mexican's when you need them?
Not making plural nouns possessive...why?
Listen.
Oh for god's sake! Ha!
DEAD SNOW http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/youricarma/Miscellaneous/DeadSnow...
Do you mean to tell me that areas located at the eastern ends of the Great Lakes get a lot of snow? Get outta here!
Another GDP mis excuse. Great.
Putins company
http://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/#agitators/list
If you live on the Great Lakes like I do, then you know this as the famous "Lake Effect Snow". This time of year the waters are warm and this arctice air very cold, the moisture streaming into the air off the lakes gets sucked up by the very dry cold air and taken inland and deposited as snow. All thats needed is the cold air to travel over the water at the right speed and heights.
We get this here on Lake Superiors shore. I have seen 3 feet of snow dumped in a day while surrounding areas have no snow at all. It is unique to this Great Lakes area where nice warm water meets extreme cold and dry arctic air. The South Shore of Lake Superior is famous for it, here to the north it is rare but does happen from time to time. Upstate New York is ground zero for this effect when the wind direction, and temperatures are right. And now when lake water is still very warm from summer heating, the effect can be off the charts crazy.
Oswego & Watertown usually end up with the most snow in NY by the end of each season.
Brutal enough to live there without the snow.
and when the lakes freeze over, lake effect snow shuts off.
climate is static, that is a fact!
now that that fact is settled, variations in climate from here on will be due to global warming/climate change
also, the climate change doctrine requires memory loss and idiocracy (ice ages never happened, warm-cool period oscillations never happened to the Earth, the Sahara was never green, the Anasazi never moved because of drought, the sun has no bearing on climate, volcanoes never erupted)
The Boston Carbon Credits party would have preceded the Boston Tea Party had they pushed for Global Warming dogma back then
The Great Snow of 1717 -- New EnglandThe Great Snow was really a series of four storms that struck in quick succession in late February and early March of 1717. No one is quite sure how widespread the effects were, as record-keeping was spotty in colonial New England. Heavy snow was recorded as far away as Philadelphia, but Boston got hit the hardest.
That winter had already been a snowy one, with reports of five feet (1.5 m) of snow already on the ground when the Great Snow began. Three or four more feet (91.4 or 122 cm) were added to that total, with drifts reportedly reaching 25 feet (7.6 m), burying entire houses or forcing people to exit from second story windows.uld've hit hard in any era. But at a time when one could travel only by horseback or on foot, when no method of snow removal beyond a shovel and a strong back was available, and when many small communities struggled in ordinary winter conditions, the Great Snow hit especially hard. Roads were blocked for a week or more, and travel between New York City and Boston was impossible. In fact, there wasn't really anything that could be done about the roads -- except to wait for warmer weather to melt the snow.
fuck this noise. snow can get itself fucked.
I thought HAARP was shut down........ someone hit the wrong button?
You'll see, the climate change morons will sweat to muster some sort of explanation, even if it kills them.
Everything but "we got paid by the State to scare you and rob you blind".
so New York gets 100 inches of snow every year, always has?
No?
Then it's a change, isn't it?
while strictly speaking this, of course, does not disprove anthropogenic global warming, but its pretty fucked up that people are seriously claiming that "climate change" caused it, after 15 years of no increase in temperature, despite 15 years of modeling saying the ice caps were melting and snow was a thing of the past.
Signed,
A Global Warming, I mean, Climate Change Agnostic.
Except it has been warming every year compared to when you say it stopped.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.html
2010 and 2005 tied for warmest years EVER on record
"the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2009, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880."
Who trusts NASA anymore...they're tasked w/ 'outreach to the Muslim world.'
Sweet. Kill the Gulf, fuck up the Jet Stream, destroy the Gulf Stream, engineer the weather -- and still nothing is stronger than the Sun himself.
Alarmists should recalibrate their alarm: our Lord Sol has forsaken us!
You know half the earth is in summer while you're in winter, right?
You didn't know?
This snowstorm is a very fitting allegory for what a snowjob global warming really is....
Bullish
As a canadian, I am totaly jealous of their situation.
Update your passport, because unless you're Inuit you're heading south. Sleep tight!
The early snowfall did catch the ski resorts a bit off guard.
http://www.onthesnow.com/buffalo/projected-openings.html
Reports from family back in the area have stated the die-hard skiers were hiking up the hills (let me emphasize the word hills) just to get in some early runs.
And every Tom Dick and Yokel is making use of trashcan lids like never before.
Good thing for all that global warming, or they would REALLY have been in trouble!
Its called Winter and it happens every year. Sometimes it snows a lot sometimes it doesn't. I really don't know why we are talking about this. Just another misdirection story to keep the stupid (Grubers words not mine) people busy talking about nothing.
I guess that is where the White Walkers will start cleansing the realm first.
Winter is Coming.
I hope we name this sunspot cycle the 'Obama Minimum'
Even though half the planet is in summer cue the Murrikinz saying because of snow there's no global warming
I don't say there is no global warming because of the snow...I say there is no global warming because there is no global warming.
Except for this global warming:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.html
2010 and 2005 tied for warmest years EVER on record
"the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2009, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880."
We go from snow to politics just like that. Nothing better to do?
Hey, look, I can post links too....
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming.html
http://www.globalclimatescam.com/
http://blog.heartland.org/2014/03/a-history-of-the-disastrous-global-warming-hoax/
All Global Warming science is complete fraud, and while that doesn't translate into zero environmental issues requiring attention, the whole jist of this initiative is to steal your economic and personal freedom's under the guise of saving the planet.
except thast NASA now admits the satellite that they base those temperature reports has been defective, sometimes showing absurd temperatures like above 600 F in WI in 2010...they have decomissioned the satellite now, but since it was launched in 2000, how long has it been dective?
"Then there was the admission by NOAA that the temperature data provided by their NOAA-16 satellite, on which the claims or a warming planet were based, were in error. A problem with the satellite meant it was reporting tempertures from 10 to 15 degrees hotter than they actually were. NOAA erased the data from their servers, but global warming propagandists still cite it in their claims of a warming world! It is interesting to note that NOAA did not detect the problem themselves, but only checked the data when outside observers pointed out that it was not consistent with ground observations."..."
Great Lakes users of the satellite service were the first to blow the whistle on the wildly distorted readings that showed a multitude of impossibly high temperatures.
In one example ... readings for June and July 2010 for Lake Michigan showed crazy temperatures off the scale ranging in the low to mid hundreds - with some parts of the Wisconsin area apparently reaching 612 F."
Except a "NASA ADMITS" claim NOT coming from NASA itself can be disregarded as a hoax.
Thank God for Global warming or Buffalo would have been in alot of trouble....
Unbelievable how I still miss Buffalo. I remember working at SM Flickingers when the Blizzard 0f 1977 hit. Just out of college, trying to figure out what to do with my life. Back then, even if you screwed up, you could still come out well. Stuck in the food warehouse where workers could not get in, but trucks could still get out, and I spent a few days there working, collecting double overtime, sleeping on dog food bales during my time off the clock. Only a few very large rats provided an occaisional distraction.
Left Orchard Park, now down in the deep south. But , alas, as Thomas Wolfe wrote so eloquently, you can never go home again. I would, if it weren't for all the taxes and regulations, especially with absurd gun control and now a new law requiring turning over heirloom firearm collections within 60 days after owner's death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ViJn-FFJaA
Who left the fridge open...
Anyone who actually is trying to make a living in academic science (like me) knows the truth - scientists are like politicians, except exchange grant $$$ for votes. No grant $$$ (or no votes) = no job. Thus, do/say/publish anything that will get you grant $$$, scarier the better. This was confirmed when a recent study by the pharmaceutical industry demonstrated <20% of all basic medical science studies are reproducible.
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/reproducibility/
The climate fears are the same. Climate scientists, who do some good work, overreached and thought "hey, let's scare the crap out of everyone with some easy to interpret hockey stick graphs, we'll get more $$$, and that's what is right for the public... we should know, because we are the scientists"! Bah! No different than a Church asking for your donation to help save your soul. Best of intentions and the road to hell and all that...
Should we study climate? Sure, it's interesting. Should we obtain grant $$$ to study climate by scaring the crap out of the public by throwing out numbers they don't understand how to interpret. No, but that's the way it works. The only climate to fear right now is the funding climate - drink the kool-aid and you're in; argue against it, be gone you heretic!
"You did baby. You did" ; )
AR5 is based on some 30,000 published science articles and was over 5 years in the making. Absolutely there are many scientists hoping there will be an AR6. My view is that everybody needs funding to live life. Look what we put ourselves through when we go for a job interview or entice someone to buy our product or service. It seems that as we achieve more success we gain more freedom to not have to "do/say/publish anything". They're known as starving artists for a reason...
I see no logic in saying because funding and because pharmaceutical industry and because church industry therefore AR5 is invalid. Nor do I see that your personal experience means you can tell people here "that's the way it works" when it comes to a massive project like AR5.
AR5 goes further than AR4 in discussing species extinction, and yeah, The Sixth Mass Extinction should be alarming.
"throwing out numbers they don't understand how to interpret" is pure hyperbole
issues of funding and peer-review need to be discussed and some scientists might have less than desirable integrity but let's try to keep it logical
possibility #1: they stick with the AGW lie.
possibility #2: they start a new AGC lie.
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What is ZERO possibility is for the predators-that-be to admit that weather is naturally variable, that weather naturally changes on time scales from seconds to minutes to hours to days to weeks to months to years to decades to centuries to millennia and beyond... and while interesting to study, no hysteria or theft like "carbon credits" and "carbon taxes" should exist.
No, they will NEVER back off from any opportunity to enslave and defraud and steal. THAT is not a possibility. Ever.
Until and unless the predators-that-be meet their justice in the guillotines. But that would require humans who aren't fools, and are willing to take actions. So, bring on the scams until the entire farce that is mankind spirals right down the toilet. And good riddens.
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PS: Snow in Buffalo? That's news? :-o
Snow removal can now be added to the USA GDP along with coke n' hookers.
Hope they enjoy it; after all, in a few years children won't know what snow is :)