Jan 16, 2025
Photo by Sara Holthouse Gimli the alpaca hides inside from the snow.
Lake effect snow dumped several inches of snow in Chautauqua County early Wednesday morning – though life moved on as normal for most.
Lake effect snow is expected to last into this morning, according to the National Weather Service. The current forecast predicts 1 to 2 inches of snow Thursday into the weekend with temperatures in the 20s, with only a chance of snow expected Friday morning.
Snowfalls on Wednesday ranged from around six and a half new inches in Dunkirk, with an eight inch depth overall to 6.2 inches in Jamestown with a 10 inch depth overall, according to the National Weather Service as of Wednesday afternoon. Southwestern Central School District was closed on Wednesday, but was the only school district to close school early.
Friday and Saturday will also see temperatures rising into the 30s, which will be the highest this area will see for a while as even colder air than what has been seen so far is expected next week.
Phillip Pandolfo, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Buffalo, Phillip Pandolfo, said while the snow is expected to head north of the Jamestown area beginning Thursday and there will be a little bit of a break for Friday and the weekend, the concern after that is the cold.
“It will be much colder early next week, likely on Monday but definitely Tuesday,” Pandolfo said. “We are uncertain as of this moment as to the temperatures at exact locations, but we are confident it will be very cold, much colder than we’ve seen so far with lows in the single digits Monday and Tuesday.”
Potential wind chills will also cause some concern heading into next week. Both Monday and Tuesday expect highs to be around 10 degrees.
If it seems that there has been a lot of lake effect snow so far this season, Pandalfo said that using numbers measured at the Buffalo airport over recent years, this year has been more of an unusual one compared to the last few.
“We have seen a colder pattern with lake effect snow storms lasting for longer periods of time compared to the last few years,” Pandolfo said. “There were those pretty significant storms in 2022, but we haven’t seen lake effect storms as persistent as it has been over the past few months.”
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