Oswego under the Lake Effect Snow Gun

February 4th - 11th, 2007 a major Lake Effect Snow band found its way through every county east and southeast of Lake Ontario...Luckily, the band never stayed over town to long, someone would have gotten 300-400+ inches! Oswego recived about 85 inches from the Lake Effect event. A few days later, recived about 15 inches from a Nor Easter, which was followed by some more Lake Effect. To put it lightly, Oswego saw over 100 inches of snow from February 4th through 18th.

Oswego canceled classes 3 days during the Lake Effect event!

(Side note: Around Tug Hill, areas received upwards of 141 inches from the Lake Effect event alone...Nor Easter and LES after also followed that)

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• Oswego
• Snow
• Lake
• Effect
• Blizzard
• Whiteout
• Ontario
• SUNY

[mhirst16]

nice production...is that Glenn Patterson in the last few slides? I worked with him at WTOP and lived across the hall in Scales from him one semester at Oswego

[Stormy8174]

haha, yes it is I, and this is my account

[ultraviperman]

still impressive though, great pics. thanks.

[Stormy8174]

2:17 shows one of the enormous drifts from the storm

2:22 is Tuesday afternoon of that week (half way through) we got about 40 inches Monday night (officially measured, so who knows with the wind)

[ultraviperman]

It sure doesn't look like 85 inches. I guess Its because its lake effect snow and it compacts so much because of its high water/ratio content.

[Stormy8174]

Well, these pictures are on campus, SUNY Oswego is right on the lake and on top of the heavy compacting that went on throughout the storm, the wind was also an issue, even when it was not snowing, sometimes ground blizzards would be an issue, so in a lot of places on campus snow could not accumulate.

[summacl]

I am a snow lover. I would have been in heaven!

[VincentSteely]

Whereis Dennis Quaid when you need him?

[phillyslasher]

@ny2ak09 Hey now, California has a lot of experience with snow. There are towns in California (in the Sierra Nevada mountains) that have Oswegos annual average on the ground at any given time! Donner Pass in April the snowpack is usually around 15-23 feet deep. You think 100 inches a year is bad? Try 400. How about 8 feet in one storm? And Southern Cal? the mountains there get more snow that the east coast also...I'm just saying man, California can handle snow too. :p

[PrayerCoach]

I'm impressed and respect the people that endure winter after winter there.

[ny2ak09]

@MiBlazed even easier in places like southern California where there's almost 100% chance of having exact same weather everyday ;)

[MiBlazed]

@ny2ak09 Just saw this for the first time in my life i moved to the east coast from seattle we dont get lighting snow storms in seattle ahahha jsut clouds and drizzel easy place to be a weather man!

[MiBlazed]

Cool video the music really adds to epicness to it :)

[craytrr]

@VincentSteely if he's in oswego... he's hiding :)

[ny2ak09]

I went there between Fa '90 and Fa'94 wow! Don't recall a giant bird, but I remember experiencing thunder and lightning lake effect snow several times there, one time picking up as much as 6 inches in 20 mins.

[tyrll4prsdnt]

I went to Oswego between 1991 and 1996, anyone ever see a GIANT bird flying around? I'm VERY serious.

[acs197]

Snow events like that are scary, amazing and beautiful!

[dawgfan24348]

wow 85 inches I get excited about 3 or 4 inches I guess cause I live in Georgia