A startling image released by the New York State Thruway Authority illustrates the amount of snowfall that certain areas of the state saw.
Living in the Hudson Valley, you are aware of the several snowstorms that have affected us this month and in the last week. The majority of the area had roughly a foot of snow earlier in January; in some areas of the Hudson Valley, that amount even surpassed eighteen inches.
By the time two to five inches of snow fell on the area on Tuesday, most, if not all, of that snow had melted.
On Friday, the Hudson Valley received an additional one to three inches of snowfall.
That’s a lot of snow days, but nothing compared to the recent ordeal our neighbors in Western New York went through.
The New York State Department of Transportation reports that there were five inches of snow on the ground in West Seneca, New York as of Wednesday.
This image from the New York State Department of Transportation shows how bad the visibility was at times in the area.
“If we were currently traveling through some areas of Buffalo, this is what you would see. really poor visibility because of the snowflakes blowing. This explains the travel ban in several places. The New York State Department of Transportation shared the image above along with the message, “Remain safe and stay at home.”
The amount of snow that fell over Western New York last week was shown in an “unscientific” manner by the New York State Thruway Authority on Friday morning at around ten a.m. Six feet of snow, according to officials, fell.
“A very unscientific look at the amount of snowfall that various parts of WNY have had in the past week. Our big plow trucks stand about ten or eleven feet tall. The snow would pile up to the windows with a total accumulation of six feet south of Buffalo! The New York State Thruway Authority posted on Facebook with the hashtag #LakeEffect.