This weather is freaky...

[GagHalfrunt]

I live in southern Connecticut about 2 minutes from Long Island Sound and we're getting lake effect snow today that's blowing all the way down from Lake Ontario. I've never seen it this far south before.

 

[John Connor]

 

[Spacehead]

That is really weird. Usually the snow dumps once it gets over land.
Are the winds that strong?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Meanwhile here in the north we barely even get much snow anymore, but the south gets more. I don't really care either way, but given I have a snow blower now, I say bring it on, so I can make that expense worthwhile.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

That is really weird. Usually the snow dumps once it gets over land.
Are the winds that strong?

They were strong, but not that strong. Gusts to maybe 35-40, we've certainly had much stronger without anything like this happening. I've never seen that before, it was a steady squall of lake effect snow on a direct line from Rochester to southwestern Connecticut. Even now six hours later it's lessened and shifted east, but still a big line of snow reaching all the way down through New York and into Massachusetts and upstate Connecticut. Areas close to the lake east of Rochester are pcking up 14"-18" from this, only flurries by the time it made it this far south.