Buffalo,NY (WBEN)If you're skier, snowboader or snowmobiler, you're in for another disappointing weekend. Snow totals so far this season are being measured in inches instead of feet.
Normally, forecaster John Hitchcock at the Buffalo Office of the National Weather Service says we'd have five feet of snow by now. As of today the airport weather station has measured just under 19 inches of snow.
It's not record territory but a very notable lack of snow. We have had an abundance of rain. 6 inches of rain since the beginning of winter.
This Winter is also remarkable in one other aspect. Lake Erie is wide open at the end of January. The water temperature is still above freezing. Hitchcock says "it's not the first time, but a very rare event".
In fact, it has only happened "about four or five times in recorded history".
The lack of Winter is an extreme contrast to an event that paralyzed our region many years ago. The infamous "Blizzard of '77" occurred 35 years ago from January 28th, 1977 through February 1st 1977.
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