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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.
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.
The National Weather Service said in its Thursday morning forecast the storm is continuing to track northeastward away from the Mid-Atlantic coast, with accumulating snowfall expected to come to ...
After a calm the afternoon of January 28, the second snowstorm dropped 6.0 more inches (15 cm) of snow on Buffalo over three days ending January 30, while Oswego on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in Central New York, received 15.7 inches (40 cm) of snow from late January 28 until January 30, on top of 6.4 inches (16 cm) it received on ...
Heavy, narrow bands of lake-effect snow were impacting Oswego and Lewis counties in northern New York on Sunday morning, January 23, with between 3 and 5 inches expected to fall by 1 pm, the ...
Heavy snow reduced visibility in parts of western New York on Thursday, November 17, after the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasted “intense” amounts of snow for the area.Heavy lake ...
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 ...
A strong band of lake effect snow brought whiteout conditions to Oswego in Upstate New York on January 10.Snowfall rates of up to 3 inches an hour were reported in the Oswego area during the ...