Areas to the north and west of the Capital Region saw only about an inch of snow, with Poestenskill in Rensselaer County recording the highest
snow total at 7.5 inches.
Southern Erie County and Cattaraugus County posted some of the
highest snow totals from the storm that started Thursday evening, but the Village of Wyoming in Wyoming County seems to have taken the lead with 2 feet.
With the low
snow totals in January and the warm weather during the last two weeks of the month, snow depths were low in both extent and depth for much of the region.
As January and February bring record storms and
snow totals across Indiana, the highways and surface roads can get ugly.
Snow totals for January were above normal only across northern Illinois, northern Indiana, and Ohio.
The
official snow total at Syracuse Hancock Airport Tuesday was 19 inches, but to the south and east of Syracuse, 2 - 3 feet fell.
Local outlet Hudson Valley Weather, while emphasizing the uncertainty of forecasting this particular storm, offered
similar snow totals: 2 - 6 ″ in most of Ulster County and northwest Orange County and all of Dutchess County, with a coating to 2 ″ in northwest Ulster and points north, and 6 - 12 ″ in southeast Orange County and points south and southeast.
Snow totals varied across the county from 5 inches in Yonkers to a foot or more in northern communities, like Cortland Manor.
The storm also has brought the
monthly snow total over 20 inches, more than January (11 inches) or February (5 inches) and well past the average for March in Buffalo, which is an even foot.
At a climb of 4 degrees Celsius, the occurrence of low snow years is much more frequent «at 30, even up to 90 percent of the years have
spring snow total that's lower than the lowest of the late 20th century,» he said.
While snowmaking allows some downhill ski areas to compensate for
decreasing snow totals, sports such as cross-country skiing and snowmobiling are incredibly vulnerable to these trends since artificial snow is not used for these open courses.
And
while snow total maps are de rigueur for any weather site worth its road salt, it's the coastal flood impacts that could also go down in the record books and drive major damage.
We live in Indiana and the past two winters have been horrible but this year we have only had 30 inches of
snow totals when we normally have 100 and to tell you the truth I actually kind of miss it!
Unfortunately, we have a huge winter storm on the way for Tuesday and we could have either get double
digit snow totals or freezing rain (our luck it will be both).
Snowfall was above normal in northern New England, where some locations posted all - time record
winter snow totals.
Some of the
largest snow totals were: 36.0 inches (91.4 cm) in Hudson, Massachusetts; 33.5 inches (85.1 cm) in Thompson, Connecticut; 33.2 inches (84.3 cm) in Nashua, New Hampshire; 31.5 inches (80.0 cm) in Sanford, Maine; 30.0 inches (76.2 cm) in Orient, New York; and 28.5 inches (72.4 cm) in Burrillville, Rhode Island.
In thinking about all the upset caused by this week's blizzard that wasn't, especially all the outrage directed at the weathermen for making everybody freak out about «historic»
snow totals that got dumped on New England instead of us, I was reminded of the best movie I saw last year: «Nightcrawler.»
Hello LS, I can't say what
the snow totals were on Mt. Shasta, but I see the Mt. Shasta from my back yard (next to Lake Shasta), and through this whole «mega storm» we have only received a bit over 4 inches of rain, and that was at a very slow pace (over 5 days).