Memorial Day mess: 3 feet of snow falls in upstate New York

[marmar]

WILMINGTON, N.Y. — A Memorial Day weekend storm has dropped three feet of snow on a New York ski mountain near the Vermont border.

Whiteface Mountain spokesman Jon Lundin says 36 inches of white powder has blanketed the nearly 5,000-foot tall mountain in the Adirondacks. That has forced the Olympic Regional Development Authority to close Whiteface Veteran's Memorial Highway on the backside of the mountain.

Lundin says the snow began lightly falling Saturday and steadily dropped Sunday, finishing in the evening. He didn't know if the 3-foot snowfall was a record for Whiteface.

Burlington, Vt., National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Muccilli says the mountain experienced steady snow and gusty winds throughout the weekend. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20130527/NEWS07/305270055/snow-new-york-memorial-day

[RobertEarl]

1. Cool

Would not want to be downstream of that when it melts in the spring heat that will be there, oh, any minute now.

There was a deep low just to the northeast of those mountains. It turns left. As it turned it drew in warm, moist Atlantic air from the south and mixed it with cold icy air from Canada. It snowed at places near freezing. That's weather for you.

Your Weather is: whether your winds blow from the south or from the north.

[tularetom]

2. Well, I guess that proves there's no such thing as global warming

I just wanted to get that out before all the trolls chimed in with the same asinine remark.

[whistler162]

3. We have had snow this late in the Syracuse area.

while unusual it does happen.

[tularetom]

4. Yeah, I know, I was just being a smartass

Because some jerk on Fox news is probably claiming that a rare Memorial Day snowfall totally disproves mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary.

[RedCappedBandit]

5. It's settled, then!