Buffalo
Radar
1/26
- 10:11AM
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These
two radar images clearly (well maybe not so clearly) show that at this
time we really did not have a pure lake effect event, rather a combination
of the snowfall from the western edge of the large scale coastal storm
and enhancement of the precipitation due to the added source of heat and
moisture from the lake. The two radar images are not the same, Buffalo
radar was in "clear air" mode at the time and Montague was in "precipitation"
mode. In the Buffalo radar image in particular you can see NW-SE
striated narrow bands of snow to the south and southeast of Buffalo.
The synoptically enhanced snowfall is apparent over Rochester.
The Montague display looks like mostly synoptic scale snowfall. Buffalo's
image is from Wednesday 1/26 around 4:00 PM and Montague is from Wednesday
1/26 around 9:15 AM. Click on the thumbnail. |
This
image was taken on Thursday, January 27th at 3:00 PM, well after the bulk
of the snow had fallen. However, you can make out narrow multiple
cloudbands on NNW winds over Lake Ontario and part of Lake Erie.
If you look very closely (and you have a good video card) you can actually
see a cloudband off the southeast end of Cayuga Lake (that's the furthest
east of the two biggest Finger Lakes)! Oneida Lake is that ice-covered
white oval area just southeast of Lake Ontario. Isn't satellite imagery
great!
