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Syracuse, New York received a record snowfall of 42.3 inches (107 cm) which remained their heaviest storm on record, until the Blizzard of 1993. [8] At Oswego, the storm lasted from January 27 to January 31, 1966, a total of 4½ days. The daily snowfall totals for Southwest Oswego, as measured by Professor Robert Sykes Jr, are as follows.
Snow drifts made travel difficult in parts of New York (February 7, 1977) A house almost completely buried in snow in Tonawanda, New York (January 30, 1977). The blizzard of 1977 hit Western New York, Central NY, Northern NY, and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1 of that year.
The term snowburst was coined in the 1960s by Prof. Robert Sykes who taught meteorology at SUNY Oswego, in northern New York. He used the term to describe a snowstorm that occurred December 7–11, 1958 in Oswego, New York. This particular storm dropped almost 6 feet of snow on the city including 40 inches in 24 hours.
Providence County, Rhode Island, was the hardest hit by the blizzard; the towns of Lincoln, Smithfield, Woonsocket, and North Smithfield all reported totals of at least 40 inches (100 cm) snow. [3] In New York City, it was one of the rare times that a snowstorm closed the schools; the New York City Board of Education closed schools for snow ...
This still stands as the second-biggest snowstorm to hit Washington, D.C., behind only the Knickerbocker storm of 1922. Cape May, New Jersey, recorded nearly a yard of snow, with 34 inches piling ...
See interactive map to stay updated on all areas impacted by weather alerts in New York. Snow forecast map: See snowfall projections by day. The map below shows the probability that an area could ...
This also includes areas such as Northern Oswego County, New York, which received historic lake effect snowfall amounts in the week prior to the storm. [ citation needed ] In addition to the snowfall, snow squalls coming from Lake Ontario gave local amounts of over 2 feet (0.61 m) of snow near the Hamilton and Niagara regions, where 1 foot (0. ...
Snowfall continued in Oswego, New York, on Sunday, November 20, as the National Weather Service alerted another band of lake-effect snow.NWS also alerted winds of up to 45 miles an hour and ...