Historic Lake Effect Snow in New York State

[donsutherland1]

I've uploaded a substantial number of photos from the historic LES event in western New York State that were provided to me by many persons. That event brought over 100" (254 cm) of snow to some towns.

Page 1: Watertown and Parish

Page 2: Watertown

Page 3: Watertown

Page 4: Watertown

Page 5: Watertown

Page 6: Watertown

Page 7: Watertown, North Osceola, and Pamelia

Page 8: Pamelia and Pulaski

Page 9: Pulaski

Page 10: Pulaski

Page 11: Pulaski, Smithville, and Oswego

Page 12: Oswego, Scriba, and Sandy Pond

Page 13: Scriba and Parish

Page 14: Parish

Page 15: Camden

Page 16: Williamstown, North Redfield, and Redfield

Page 17: Redfield, Mexico, and Montague

Edited February 16, 2007 by donsutherland1

[J10]

Great Photos.

[eddie]

Awesome photos! Thanks!

[Greyowl]

Some great photos there. Thanks for sharing them.

[angela lynne]

nice photos

[Gray-Wolf]

Strange how the warmer waters of the lake leads to colder conditions on land! God bless Temp. anoms.

[Greyowl]

Imagine the chaos if that happend in the UK.

[Andy H]

Wow some amazing pictures there

[Coopsy]

Strange how the warmer waters of the lake leads to colder conditions on land! God bless Temp. anoms.

Technically the snow is formed by the temperature gradient between the warm waters and the already cold land/air surface so it doesnt actually make the land any cooler in that respect

[kold weather]

Ah Don, the legend at easternuswx I take it?

Some great photos, good lord if we had that we'd have to call a emergancy. Intresting to see given we may just have our own little version of that IF the ECM and GFS are right tonight.

[donsutherland1]

Thanks all for the kind words.

Kold Weather,

Yes, I'm over at Easternuswx. I just thought people in Europe might be interested in the extreme lake effect snow event.

Have a terrific weekend.

[WhiteFox]

I was in Mexico yesterday (NY obviously!) and there is still a lot of snow about.

Quite interesting to see the picture of McDonald's as we were drinking coffee in that very place. If you look at the right of the picture you'll see an enormous mound of snow. I estimated it to be about 11 feet. One of the McDonald's employees was standing on top of it trying to dig down to the sidewalk!

Got some pics so will post some when I get the chance. All I can say is that the amount of snow was simply jaw-dropping!

The thaw has started over here though...

[Bobby]

Holy mother of God. That's more snow than all the snow I've seen in my life put together there...