Buffalo Two Feet of Snow Funny

• Locally over vii feet of snow buried the Buffalo Southtowns the week before Thanksgiving 2014.
• There were 14 fatalities with this storm, and thousands of motorists were stranded on snow-covered highways.
• Side streets in the Buffalo Southtowns remained choked with feet of snow days after the storm.

Five years agone this week, an epic lake-effect snowstorm crippled parts of the Buffalo Southtowns in western New York with over 7 feet of snow and illustrated the dangers associated with these types of snowstorms.

"There were fourteen fatalities with this storm, hundreds of major roof collapses and structural failures, thousands of stranded motorists and scattered food and gas shortages due to impassable roads," the National Weather Service in Buffalo wrote in a mail service-storm summary. "Numerous trees also gave fashion due to the weight of the snowfall, causing isolated ability outages."

(PHOTOS: Lake-Event Snow Hammers Western New York )

A 132-mile section of the New York Country Pike – known by locals as "The 90" – from exits 46 through 61 was shut downward for several days. A stretch of the Niagara Pike (Interstate 190) southbound from Niagara Falls (leave 16) to the Interstate 90 interchange was also closed.

Western New York dealt with ii periods of thundersnow, both belatedly November. 17 into Nov. 18, and then again tardily Nov. nineteen into Nov. 20, when a second major lake-event snow event set up over well-nigh the aforementioned surface area and compounded rescue and recovery efforts. Snow rates were estimated every bit high equally six inches per 60 minutes at times.

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Localized snowfall totals from the combination of the two storms peaked at over seven feet, with many areas south of Buffalo buried under iii to iv feet of dense snowpack by the end of the event.

Here were the reported snow totals from both rounds of lake-consequence snow in western New York between Nov. 17 and Nov. 21, 2014:

- Cowlesville: 88 inches

- Lancaster: 74 inches

- Orchard Park: 71 inches

- Wales Center: 69.3 inches

- West Seneca: 52.5 inches

- Buffalo International Aerodrome: 16.9 inches

- Tonawanda: 7.9 inches

Side streets in the Buffalo Southtowns were high-strung with feet of snow days later on the tempest.

This snowfall prompted the National Football League to move a Lord's day afternoon game between the host Buffalo Bills and New York Jets to Detroit on Monday night. The Buffalo Bills estimated 220,000 tons of snow needed to be removed from then Ralph Wilson Stadium (now New Era Field) in Orchard Park, enough to fill the team'southward practice facility 8 times.

Was this the worst tempest in Buffalo expanse history?

Tom Niziol, former winter weather skillful at The Weather condition Aqueduct, said a 5-day blizzard in January 1977 hammered all of western New York, including the city of Buffalo, stranding hundreds in their vehicles. 20-nine people lost their lives in that storm. Many were asphyxiated in their cars or died from exposure.

In 2014, two factors combined to yield the farthermost snowfall totals in areas of the Buffalo Southtowns.

Start, air current directions remained fairly constant. That meant lake-upshot snowbands hammered the same areas for a prolonged period of time.

Second, the air blowing over the lake was the coldest for that early in November since 1986. The large temperature deviation between the relatively mild Lake Erie waters and the air above create an unstable atmosphere, which allows air to ascension more rapidly, and therefore, generate snowfall more efficiently. Snowfall rates were estimated at 4 inches per hour in the snowbands east of Lake Erie.

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Research has shown that November storms produce the highest amount of precipitation for lake-event events. Because the atmosphere overall is warmer in Nov compared to January, it is able to contain more than h2o vapor, which in turn produces more snowfall.

Elsewhere that calendar week, parts of western Lower Michigan picked upwards almost 30 inches of snow. Through 8 a.thousand. EST on Nov. 20, 2014, Gaylord, Michigan, chalked up its heaviest iii-twenty-four hours snowstorm on record, with 29.6 inches of snow since the morning of Nov. 17.

M Rapids, Michigan, set up a new November monthly snow record, topping the old November tape from 1895 (28.ii inches).

The snowfall-weary Upper Peninsula of Michigan and far northern Wisconsin also got its share of heavy lake-outcome snowfall, with over 50 inches reported in one northern Wisconsin town.

(MORE: Over 50 Inches of Snow Blankets Wisconsin Boondocks )

Combination of photos from Gile, Wisconsin, on November. 18, 2014. Gile had picked up over 6 feet of total snowfall from the morning of Nov. 10 through half-dozen a.g. CST on Nov. 18. For reference, the canis familiaris is xx inches tall and terminate signs in the town are taller than standard height elsewhere.

(Peg Sutherland)

Marquette, Michigan, went on to set up a new Nov monthly snowfall tape in 2014, with 53 inches piling upwards by month'southward finish. An average November in Marquette brings 24.5 inches of snowfall.

Winds too gusted over 50 mph at times in the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula early Nov. 18.

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