‘Paralyzing snowfall’ looms for Upstate NY; feet of snow possible on Tug Hill, WNY

Syracuse, N.Y. — The slumbering lake effect snow machine is roaring back to life this week in Upstate New York.

Conditions are shaping up for a “prolonged lake snow event” starting Wednesday night and lasting into the weekend for Tug Hill and Western New York, the National Weather Service said.

“This event will have the very real potential to produce a paralyzing snowfall that could be measured in feet for the Buffalo and Watertown metro areas,” said the weather service’s Buffalo office, which issues forecasts for counties along Lake Ontario.

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The coldest air of the season so far is expected to move across the relatively warm and still wide-open Great Lakes, generating lake effect snow that could fall at a blinding rate of 1 inch or more per hour.

The heaviest snow will be confined to the traditional lake effect snow belts, the weather service said, as the winds set up from the west. Winter storm watches have been issued from Thursday to Sunday for Jefferson, Alleghany, Erie, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee and Wyoming counties.

Much of the rest of Upstate New York will see some snow from a larger storm system starting tonight. Winter weather alerts are in place for most of Upstate for a few inches of snow mixed with ice, which could make roads treacherous Wednesday morning.

“A period of snow moves into the area Tuesday evening before likely changing over to a wintry mix of rain, freezing rain, sleet and perhaps some lingering snow,” said the Binghamton weather service office, which forecasts for the Finger Lakes and Central New York.

The Syracuse area could also get an additional few inches of snow Wednesday night as the lake effect bands dip south.

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