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Tug Hill, sometimes referred to as the Tug Hill Plateau, [4] is an upland region in northern New York state, notable for heavy winter snows. [5] [6] The Tug Hill region is east of Lake Ontario, north of Oneida Lake, and west of the Adirondack Mountains. The region is separated from the Adirondacks by the Black River Valley.
The greatest snow accumulations are expected across the northern Tug Hill region to areas just south and east of Watertown. Allegany: 8 to 14 inches of snow. The greatest accumulations will focus ...
Regions like the Tug Hill Plateau are frequently hammered by lake effect storms due to it being in the path of a predominant wind direction off the lake, though the hilly terrain influences the ...
Kathy Davis, a resident of Tug Hill in northern New York, described Saturday’s heavy snow as a “good old-fashioned winter,” in a video clip she shared with CNN affiliate WWNY.
Total snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches in the most persistent lake snows. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph will produce blowing and drifting snow. Snowfall rates may briefly reach 2 to 4 inches per hour. * WHERE...Oswego county. Greatest accumulations across the Tug Hill Plateau, with much lower amounts across lower elevations.
Western New York was hit hard by high winds, with winds gusting to 74 mph (119 km/h) in Dunkirk and 78 mph (126 km/h) in Watertown; [26] the National Weather Service's Buffalo office warned in an Area Forecast Discussion that gusts from the southeast descending from Tug Hill could reach "potentially generational" levels. [27]
"Lake-effect snow bands can be narrow - sometimes only 3 to 5 miles wide, where the intense snow is focused. Outside of the band, there can be little to even no snow falling with an unusually ...
Up to 1 inch (25 mm) was reported in Lowville, New York, in the foothills of the Tug Hill Plateau. [110] In Ontario , a mix of snow, freezing rain, ice pellets and rain battered Toronto and the surrounding area, causing hundreds of vehicle collisions, flight cancellations, power outages and transportation delays.