ChicagoRic Posted January 14 Posted January 14 This isn't about playing conditions, it's about driving conditions. 50 people died in weather like this last year. Quote
Big Turk Posted January 14 Posted January 14 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Simon said: Total guess judging only from radar returns: Maybe 8" so far? Probably a bit more to the south of Orchard Park. Band is sliding northward now and it will likely start piling up more overnight. Likely going to sit over metro Buffalo and near Northtowns overnight and much of the day tomorrow. 2 hours ago, zow2 said: The snow % for Monday went way up in the past 24 hours. The winds look better at 10-20mph and hopefully no whiteout conditions. Just a real wintry week ahead, looks like a few inches of snow nearly every day. Oh, likely way more than that... ".LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... The very active pattern will continue through the end of next week with multiple opportunities for accumulating snow including lake effect and synoptic snow. A mid level closed low will remain parked near Hudson Bay through the end of the week, a classic large scale signal for active weather in the Great Lakes with cold cyclonic flow. Tuesday night through Thursday another round of potentially heavy lake effect snow will impact areas east and northeast of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. This is a long ways out, so plenty of uncertainty with band placement and intensity, but the overall large scale pattern looks supportive of heavy lake effect snow which may target the Buffalo Metro area and Watertown areas." Edited January 14 by Big Turk Quote
rusty shackleford Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I’m in Lakeview and the accumulation hasn’t been much since this started (maybe 4-5 inches) but it is blowing around like crazy. I just shoveled for my dogs and I didn’t want to open my slider because the huge drift against it, but half my patio was still bare concrete at the same time. Quote
Locomark Posted January 14 Posted January 14 46 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said: I mean… not one game ever has been suspended because of weather due to an open stadium. 90% of those games suspended were because of September hurricanes. The Minnesota game was suspended FROM a dome. The Bills game have been suspended because of public safety, not because the game would be played outside. A dome does zero to alleviate these suspensions. We understand this, right? Another sample of division in our culture. Some people believe in just doing and saying whatever feels good to them and f everyone else, while others believe that the human safety of 80K and having emergency responders helping their community (instead of being huddled around a stadium) is actually right. The Bills and NFL shouldn’t want a game that could be a joke that has no basis in talent or even football. REAL Bills fans should also want no part of a well deserved playoff game that throws away talent for a visual spectacle. 5 Quote
Draconator Posted January 14 Posted January 14 If this is true, Hochul and Polencarz did Buffalo a favor 1 Quote
Beck Water Posted January 14 Posted January 14 (edited) Amazing photo of Lake Effect snow Edited January 14 by Beck Water 2 Quote
jkeerie Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I live near Elma and we had white out conditions starting at 5pm. The snow quit around 9 pm. We got a few inches but blowing and drifted. As of midnight it started up again...back to whiteout conditions. So the band is moving up and down. 2 1 Quote
Jamie Nails Posted January 14 Posted January 14 1 hour ago, Georgia Bill said: Anyone on the south side of Buffalo who can tell us what's going on with the weather tonight? I’m staying with a buddy in west Seneca. not pretty. Quote
mannc Posted January 14 Posted January 14 32 minutes ago, Draconator said: If this is true, Hochul and Polencarz did Buffalo a favor We’ll see. It might have been better to just play the game in Atlanta. 2 Quote
Draconator Posted January 14 Posted January 14 It was snowing pretty heavily in Orchard Park about an hour ago. Now not much is going on. Quote
Richard Noggin Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Up in southern Niagara County we haven't seen much accumulation at all. But the wind at times has been fierce, and visibility was null for a spell right before sundown. Hate to think the authorities and the league got it wrong with respect to travel danger tomorrow (I don't know that they did, but it sucks if so), because so many or our fellow citizens are always just waiting for another reason to lose further trust in the "experts" or "authorities". I think the postponement was smart based on best information at the time. Not much of a downside tbh (minus the further radicalization of internet skeptics). 1 Quote
Beck Water Posted January 14 Posted January 14 5 minutes ago, Richard Noggin said: Up in southern Niagara County we haven't seen much accumulation at all. But the wind at times has been fierce, and visibility was null for a spell right before sundown. Hate to think the authorities and the league got it wrong with respect to travel danger tomorrow (I don't know that they did, but it sucks if so), because so many or our fellow citizens are always just waiting for another reason to lose further trust in the "experts" or "authorities". I think the postponement was smart based on best information at the time. Not much of a downside tbh (minus the further radicalization of internet skeptics). I think that's a pretty typical pattern for lake effect snow, isn't it? Couple inches in N Amherst, Tonawanda, and Niagara County which are shielded from the lake Good snowstorm somewhere between Downtown Buffalo and Angola, but nothing too outrageous Some limited belt within that area gets HAMMERED and winds up with 3 foot drifts Some ####### is undoubtedly and inevitably going to stand in the northern part of the city and blog on the internet about how the travel ban and the snowstorm are "fake news" when it's pretty clear they're out of the Lake Effect area. 1 Quote
JoPoy88 Posted January 14 Posted January 14 2 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: They could have played it at Saturday at 1:00... I was driving into orchard Park and it was playable weather Now we were scheduled from Sunday for the get-go... But they knew this was possible since Wednesday Thursday and yeah early Saturday easily could have been playable “Playable” isn’t the issue. Not sure why so many of you don’t get this. 1 Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 14 Posted January 14 I went to West Seneca schools. Those bastards never closed and if they did, were the very last. Didn't help that "W" was at the end of the alphabet on the radio school closing broadcast! 😕😞 Quote
Buffalo716 Posted January 14 Posted January 14 (edited) 2 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said: “Playable” isn’t the issue. Not sure why so many of you don’t get this. At 1:00 p.m. it was perfectly safe to get to orchard Park... I've been all over Western New York today before 8:00 p.m. It was nothing that we are not used to We are completely prepared for this in Buffalo... And if the league made this a 1:00 p.m. game Saturday 4 days ago it could have absolutely 100% worked This is nothing we haven't dealt with for 60 years of the Buffalo Bills Edited January 14 by Buffalo716 2 Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 14 Posted January 14 1 minute ago, JoPoy88 said: “Playable” isn’t the issue. Not sure why so many of you don’t get this. Sure the hell is the issue from Saturday night to Monday 7am!!! Quote
JoPoy88 Posted January 14 Posted January 14 Just now, Buffalo716 said: At 1:00 p.m. it was perfectly safe and playable to get to orchard Park... I've been all over Western New York today before 8:00 p.m. It was nothing that we are not used to Sure whatever you say. 1 Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 14 Posted January 14 1 minute ago, Buffalo716 said: At 1:00 p.m. it was perfectly safe and playable to get to orchard Park... I've been all over Western New York today before 8:00 p.m. It was nothing that we are not used to We are completely prepared for this in Buffalo... And if the league made this a 1:00 p.m. game 4 days ago it could have absolutely 100% worked Steelers are now arriving today. Sunday. Quote
Buffalo716 Posted January 14 Posted January 14 (edited) 3 minutes ago, JoPoy88 said: Sure whatever you say. I've lived in Buffalo and Western New York my entire life and this is nothing out of the ordinary There would have been no problem in or out of the stadium at 1:00 p.m. Saturday if the league would have made the call 4 days ago to just play it Saturday 3 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Steelers are now arriving today. Sunday. So you just gloss over the point where I said the league could have made the call on Wednesday... They've known this was happening for a week possibly They could have made this a Saturday game on Wednesday... The Steelers could have been here on Friday Edited January 14 by Buffalo716 1 Quote
ExiledInIllinois Posted January 14 Posted January 14 2 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: I've lived in Buffalo and Western New York my entire life and this is nothing out of the ordinary There would have been no problem in or out of the stadium at 1:00 p.m. today So you just gloss over the point where I said the league could have made the call on Wednesday... They've known this was happening for a week possibly They could have made this a Saturday game on Wednesday... The Steelers could have been here on Friday No. But... It's better to let storm pass and play after. In 2017 they pushed the game back 6 hours between Pittsburgh in KC because of storm during the playoffs. Here they had to wait 27 hours. 1 Quote
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