[Ouderkirk]

Yeah, yeah, yeah....Tug Hill in NYS routinely gets 3-5 feet of lake effect fluff (and it is fluff) and nobody bats an eye.

While all of this was going on in Erie, Tug Hill was getting blasted too.

5 feet of lake effect snow settles into about 15 inches in a few days. Even less after a week.

[SamAdams76]

Lake effect snow can be incredibly localized. It depends on what direction the wind is coming off the lakes. Usually Buffalo gets creamed but when the wind is more out of the north, that's when places like Erie can get it. You can have several feet of snow pile up just a few miles away from where there is next to nothing.

There are only three places in the world that get lake-effect snow. The Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and some Japanese islands whose name I can't remember (and too lazy to Google).

[SamAdams76]

Lake effect snow can be incredibly localized. It depends on what direction the wind is coming off the lakes. Usually Buffalo gets creamed but when the wind is more out of the north, that's when places like Erie can get it. You can have several feet of snow pile up just a few miles away from where there is next to nothing.

There are only three places in the world that get lake-effect snow. The Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and some Japanese islands whose name I can't remember (and too lazy to Google).