Heavy snow, numbing temperatures keep parts of US in deep freeze
Lowville: Heavy snowfall and numbing temperatures kept parts of the US in a deep freeze Sunday as the Thanksgiving holiday weekend draws to a close. Despite the Arctic-type weather, however, snowmobilers and skiers are revelling in their respective wintry terrains, and weather forecasters gave possible good news ahead of the NFL game in Buffalo.
In the remote Tug Hill region of upstate New York, where lake-effect snow off Lake Ontario can dump several feet of snow at a time, there was up to 46 inches in the Barnes Corners area.
“We just keep digging out,” Kevin Tyo, a local businessman, said Sunday “We were out all day yesterday, plowing.”
Like many locals, he has a plow attached to the front of his truck for much of the winter, “and I have a tractor with a bucket, and a snowblower.”
His advice? “If you’re not used to it, stay home. If you’re out, slow down.”
In Buffalo, officials with the NFL’s Bills had sought stadium snow shovelers for the season, including ahead of Sunday night’s game against the San Francisco 49ers.
The team said it would pay $20 per hour and provide food and hot drinks.
A lake-effect storm began hitting the area Saturday near the Bills’ stadium in Orchard Park, New York. Snow was continuing to fall near the stadium just hours ahead of the game, according to the State Weather Risk Communication Centre in New York.
“Snowfall totals will be highly dependent on whether the current lake effect snow shifts just south of the stadium, or remains in place over the stadium longer,” the centre said in a post on the social media site X.
A blast of Arctic air late last week brought bitter temperatures of 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit below
average to the Northern Plains, the National Weather Service said, prompting
cold advisories for parts of North Dakota.
Frigid air was expected to move over the eastern third of the US by Monday, with temperatures about 10 degrees below average.
Officials in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the heavy lake-effect snow has produced “treacherous” conditions that
are causing even snowplows to get stuck as they work around the clock to try to clear city roads.
