Snowfall tops 6 feet in western New York
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The Monster Buffalo Snowstorm May Have Set a Record. More Is on the Way.
The city is on track to break snowfall records set in 2014 with at least another six inches forecast to arrive Saturday night.
BUFFALO — The city of Buffalo, where heavy snow is commonly met with a shrug and a shovel, awoke on Saturday to chest-high drifts left by a lake-effect storm...
Officials said the storm appeared to drop a record amount of snow for Erie County in a 24-hour period — up to six inches per hour at times, leaving more than 50, 60 and even 70 inches over the whited-out region. Wind roared through Buffalo’s city corridors, picking up snow and flinging it sideways wherever it chose. [good writing] And in parts of the region south of the city, snowfall totals crept above six feet, even as the storm shifted north.
