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Buffalo Goes Snow-Free in November
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Posted on 11/30/2001 4:45:11 PM PST by SamAdams76
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A year after Buffalo's record-breaking 45.6 inches of November snow, the city is ending the month without a flake for the first time.
Friday's temperatures were above 60 degrees, capping what also has been one of the warmest Novembers, National Weather Service (news - web sites) meteorologist Steve McLaughlin said.
Even the cherry trees were confused.
``We're shocked they're blooming,'' said Annemarie Orlando of Tonawanda.
Last year, 45.6 inches had piled up by now - more than half during a single-day storm Nov. 20 - and the Public Works Department had used up its overtime budget.
Buffalo has averaged nine or 10 inches of November snow since 1884 when record-keeping began.
The jet stream, with its frigid air, has stayed in Canada this year, McLaughlin said. Last November it sent cold air across Lake Erie, producing the so-called ``lake effect'' snow for which Buffalo is infamous.
The mild weather was expected to continue, with no snow forecast for at least a week.
``What we don't get at one time we will get later. Let's hope it's just not all at once,'' said Janet Fisher of the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
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It has been a very mild month in New England as well. This is the first year I can remember where I had all my leaves raked by Thanksgiving. Usually I quit raking around Halloween and finish in the spring because November weather is usually cold and nasty here in New England. It's been so warm that I put up Christmas decorations last weekend in a short sleeve shirt. Now I hear it is going to be in the 60s tomorrow throughout the Northeast!
But before the global warming crowd shows up to crow, change is in the air. There is a huge pool of frigid Arctic air up in Northern Canada and Asia that is currently being kept in place by an unusually strong ridge east of Hawaii. Well that ridge is finally showing signs of breaking down and when it does, that super-cold polar air is going to come rushing down into the United States. In fact, we could easily be talking about record cold temperatures in many places by December 10 and certainly by December 15. Go ahead and bump this thread around that time and see if I am right.
Once the artic air settles southward into the northern United States, it looks like it is going to be sticking around for a while. So it looks like we may very well be making up for lost time and there may be a White Christmas from Montana to Maine and south to New Jersey.
To: SamAdams76
I know the UP got socked with snow, and the lower part of Michigan has been safe so far. It's bound to end sometime.
To: SamAdams76
We've been getting clobbered out here in the West. Lots of cold rain in the lower elevations, heavy snows up high. 50 - 80 foot swells out at sea with 100 foot rogues. The storms just keep rolling in from the Gulf Of Alaska. Another one hitting either late tonight or tomorrow. Every one of them a cold storm, not a hint of what we call the Pineapple Express which is more tropical in nature. At some point, these storms will start to reach the East Coast and lower Great Lakes - stay tuned!
To: belmont_mark
Another thing to consider is that we had some late tropical storms and hurricanes. In other years where there was a November hurricane, there were always cold and snowy winters (after a warm start). Yeah, I think we are going to get clobbered once this warm spell is over. BTW, yesterday was the coldest day of the year so far in Massachusetts. It was only 38 degrees for a high in my backyard (I have my own weather station) and yesterday morning, the rain was mixed with snow for a while. But it was much warmer today and looks to be in the upper 60s tomorrow.
To: SamAdams76
The weather heads are talking ten more days of rain/snow mix here iw Wa. State...looks like we are going to make up for last years drought...
To: SamAdams76
The weather heads are talking ten more days of rain/snow mix here iw Wa. State...looks like we are going to make up for last years drought...
To: SamAdams76
"But it was much warmer today and looks to be in the upper 60s tomorrow." Mid-sixties today in North Texas.
But we got our first Blue Norther on Tuesday and the first frost that night...
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posted on
11/30/2001 5:18:03 PM PST
by
okie01
To: SamAdams76
The terrorists have screwed up everything, even the weather!!! ;o)
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posted on
11/30/2001 5:20:25 PM PST
by
Tiny
To: SamAdams76
Well, we here in South MS were sweating a few days ago with highs in the 80's, but the temps are back dow nto an utterly freezing level of upper 50's to low 60's. Of course this all means the ebil white capatilist pigs have burnt to much coal and other industrial fuels and we are all going to die of global warming!! How we're going to die from lack of frigid temps and snow beats me, but all the same, ahhhh!!!
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posted on
11/30/2001 5:30:40 PM PST
by
Cleburne
Boy.....I really miss Buffalo and the snow......NOT!
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posted on
11/30/2001 5:49:06 PM PST
by
Sungirl
To: SamAdams76
As Mark Twain once said...
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
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posted on
11/30/2001 5:49:55 PM PST
by
citizenK
To: SamAdams76
Go figure. Midland, Texas had 10 inches of snow a couple of days ago and it snowed as far south as San Antonio. i have read the same things on Accuweather.com about that Artic air. I think the whole nation is going to get wacked in the midddle of December on thru the holdiay season.
To: SamAdams76
Why anyone would want to stop global warming is beyond me! I've lived in Buffalo for the last 14 years and this is the most pleasant autumn I can remember.
To: Sungirl
"Boy.....I really miss Buffalo and the snow......NOT!" Me too. I left in 1976 . . .
To: SamAdams76
Snow-free here in Vermont, too. There was about an inch of snow on the ground when I got back here Thursday night, but it has all been washed away by the rain, and it's back up into the 50s again. Last winter we had a ton of snow, said to be the most in a century.
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posted on
11/30/2001 6:31:42 PM PST
by
Cicero
To: SamAdams76
Last year, 45.6 inches had piled up by now - more than half during a single-day storm Nov. 20
There aren't enough words to describe last Nov. 20th and the following 3-4 days. It was much worse than the "blizzard of '77".
The jet stream, with its frigid air, has stayed in Canada this year, McLaughlin said.
Hopefully it will stay there.
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posted on
11/30/2001 6:56:55 PM PST
by
Marianne
To: SamAdams76
But before the global warming crowd shows up to crow, change is in the air. There is a huge pool of frigid Arctic air up in Northern Canada and Asia that is currently being kept in place by an unusually strong ridge east of Hawaii...Yes, it was in the -50 degree range in Eastern Siberia this past morning. Our warm ridge is another locations cold trough -- not global warming.
To: SamAdams76
I have my own weather station...Are you on-line at the Weather Underground?
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