It's nice to be first, isn't it, Kitty!
We get a ot of lake-effect from Lake Ontario here. There is an area just north of us that is even more directly in the path of the snow - the Tug Hill Plateau.
Here are some records from Tug Hill:
Hooker, with 466.9 inches the winter of 1976-77;
Bennett Bridges, south of Orwell, with 192 inches in January 1978
Barnes Corners in the Jefferson County town of Adams, with 54 inches on Jan. 9, 1976. Update: After this story was published, a one-day record was set in Montague, also on the Tug Hill. From 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 1997, to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, 1997, Bill Ottoshavett, a snow spotter for the National Weather Service, measured a total of 77 inches. Officials at the weather service in Buffalo certified Ottoshavett's measurements, and said Montague had also broken the New York record for total snowfall in a single storm. From Friday night, Jan. 10, through early Tuesday, Jan. 14. 1997, Ottoshavett measured a total of 95 inches. That trounces the old record for a single storm, which was set Jan. 18 to 22, 1940, in Watertown, with 69 inches.
77 inches in 24 hours!!!!
