The city of Buffalo has received two days of record snowfall. And the snow is continuing into Saturday. The Buffalo airport measured 16 inches of snow on Friday. This broke the 2014s daily snowfall record of 7.6 inches.
Buffalo is experiencing near-zero visibility due to the snow flurries. And travel is all but impossible in the area. All flights are canceled, and the roads are buried in snow.
As of 8 am Saturday snow totals near and south of the Buffalo and Watertown, New York are:
Orchard Park -77 inches
Natural Bridge -72.3 inches
Blasdell -65 inches
Hamburg -61 inches
The city of Buffalo hasn’t quite gotten the human-height snowfall totals, but they have picked up two days of record snowfall. Today, Saturday, the airport in town picked up more than 16 inches of snow, which broke the daily record of 7.6 inches dating back to 2014.
What is a Lake-effect snowstorm?
Lake-effect snowstorms are more common in the late fall and early winter. And are usually centered in areas downwind of the Great Lakes.
