BUFFALO, N.Y. — The lake effect snow band that has been impacting parts of our area for days and bringing accumulating snow and tough travel conditions, is finally weakening and almost done. Therefore the Lake Effect Snow Warning for Erie, Genesee, and Wyoming counties until 7 PM this evening was allowed to expire.
Widespread snow is expected to move in on Friday with a few inches of fresh snow possible, and colder air for Friday night.
Stay tuned to Storm Team 2 for the latest updates.
Many communities in Erie county are now digging out of the several feet of snow that was dumped from the two lake bands since the weekend. Snow totals so far show West Seneca has already received 65 inches since Saturday, Hamburg 62.5 inches, Lackawanna 59.8 inches, Lancaster 56 inches, south Buffalo 53.5 inches, Blasdell 41 inches, the Buffalo Airport 26.3 inches.
And storm lake effect snow totals from Saturday into Monday morning over the past weekend exceeded 3 feet for some locations. The lake effect snow storm snow totals from the last round show (National Weather Service):
- Hamburg 41.3"
- Angola 41"
- Derby 41"
- Blasdell 36"
- Alden 32"
- Elma Center 31.5"
- Buffalo 31"
- Lancaster 30"
- Elma 29.5"
- Lackawanna 29"
- West Seneca 26"
- Eden 22"
- Corfu 21"
- Pembroke 20"
- Batavia 20"
- Millgrove 20"
- Orchard Park 18"
- Middleport 17"
- Lockport 16.2"
- Marilla 16"
- East Aurora 16"
- Darien Center 14.5"
- North Tonawanda 13.8"
- Warsaw 13"
- Buffalo Airport 10.8"
- East Amherst 8.5"
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