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Seven Feet of Snow
12/25/2002
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When we think of historic snows, we often have to go back to 1888, or 1978. Not this year; the
Christmas-week snows in Buffalo LAST year were truly memorable. Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton, and this
is The Weather Notebook.
MS: The Buffalo area had a mild fall back in November. Temperatures were in the 60s and even
reached 70 degrees on a day or two.
Mark Scott, News Director at WBFO, in Buffalo sets the stage.
MS: Lake Erie never cooled down, so you get into December, temperatures start falling a bit,
the lake waters are really warm and all this cold air moves across the lake.
That allowed weather systems to pick up loads of moisture, which they started dumping on
Buffalo on Christmas Eve.
MS: We received about two feet of snow on Christmas Eve, it snowed into the early evening
hours, canceling a lot of church services, some family activities, and the snow continued in a
lighter way overnight and by Christmas morning it did let up.
But that, says Scott, was just a tease.
MS: On Wednesday afternoon the snow began falling again, and this was the big storm. The
winds were shifting a little bit so sometimes the northern areas would get hit, then it would
shift to the south a little bit and then shift back north but, for the most part for 48
straight hours the heavy snow fell and it was not stopping; this is when it got serious. The
snow total started to creep up to three feet, then four feet; then by Friday morning, we were
talking about an un-Godly 82 inches of snow on the ground since Monday.
Tomorrow, we hear how folks reacted to all that snow. The Weather Notebook is funded by Subaru
and The National Science Foundation.
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