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October 13, 2006
Snow - but luckily to the west.
Don't worry about me, dear readers - the snow is all to the west. For now.
You might be interested to know why we get less snow south of the Thruway - and these Colleges employ a lake effect snow expert! I'm not going to say that having heard a couple of friday faculty lunch talks from Neil Laird has made me fonder of snow, but at least I understand it a little better.
The basic answer turns out to be that the prevailing winds are very seldom from the due north - and since Geneva is about 15 miles south of Lake Ontario that keeps us less snowy. The Thruway is about 10 miles south of Ontario, and that's about the southern boundary of the diagonally-carried lake effect snows.
He and his students are studying poor ol' Ithaca, which gets lake effect off of Seneca Lake and noticeably more snow than Geneva. The message?
Come live in Geneva! Less snow than most places in Upstate NY!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 13, 2006 7:33 AM