An "extreme" lake-effect storm that dumped 77 inches in Orchard Park has left the Buffalo metro area, but forecasters from the National Weather Service warn that blowing snow Sunday night and Monday could make travel difficult.
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What to expect in next 36 hours: One more little shot of snow, lots and lots of wind
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Neighbors Stephan Davis, left, and Star Haynes playfully spray one another with their snowblowers in the Elmwood neighborhood of Buffalo, Nov. 19, 2022.
Liz Jurkowski of the National Weather Service said the existing record for a two-day total of snow in Erie County is 51 inches measured 19 mil…
Late Friday afternoon, the Evans Center Volunteer Fire Company at 8298 Erie Road opened its doors to stranded motorists. Here are some of thei…
Much of the attention will likely be in the hardest-hit areas, such as Orchard Park, Evans, Lackawanna and Hamburg, where travel bans remain i…
The closure announcement comes after Erie County officials said early Sunday that they would discuss with school district officials today abou…
From the Southtowns to Niagara County, Buffalo News staff peered outside Friday morning to gauge the impact of the winter storm on their neigh…
About 150 National Guard members have been deployed to the Buffalo area to help respond to the storm, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.
Much of Buffalo woke to 1 to 2 feet of snow Saturday morning, officials said, and a brief respite from severe weather allowed cleanup crews to…
Just how much snow and where exactly it will hit isn't easy to predict.
School districts in Erie County will close on Friday due to the lake-effect storm.
County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown joined Hochul Thursday morning in Cheektowaga for a news briefing to underscore …
Western New York Catholics who live in areas affected by the snowstorm, travel advisories or travel bans are exempt from the obligation to att…
Amtrak's Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Depew stations are closed through Friday because of the expected snowstorm.
"What we're talking about is a major, major storm," Gov. Kathy Hochul said during a news conference Thursday. "This is considered an extreme e…
Metro Bus service on all routes serving Erie County has been suspended Friday because of the snowstorm, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Au…
If you don't have to be on the roads in Erie County, stay off of them. That was the message from County Executive Mark Poloncarz.
The driving ban was lifted for Buffalo, but remained in effect for the central part of Erie County.
"Most roads in the area are impassable," town police posted on Facebook.
When significant snowstorms hit Western New York, the TV news departments send reporters outside to brave the elements, put them in cars to sh…
A crew of three from The Weather Channel picked a location near the intersection of Pleasant Avenue and Lake Street in the Village of Hamburg …
Around 11:30 a.m., with no cars or SUVs in sight, two snowmobiles zoomed south in Lake View along Route 5, a normally busy thoroughfare.
Nearly 60 plows were clearing paths at midday Friday in South Buffalo, the hardest-hit section of the city over the first 18 hours of an "extr…
“The hard part is not just the snow, it’s the fact that the first 2 to 3 inches are just pure water," East Aurora resident and plow driver Rob…
“No roads are plowed, and if they were, they’re covered again, which is making it terrible for us,” Matt Duggan said Friday morning as he drov…
Downed power lines. Snowplows stuck. And strangers helping one another. Here's how some Western New Yorkers weathered the storm.
Law enforcement officers wrote 300-plus tickets through Friday evening to drivers who violated travel bans during a lake-effect snowstorm that…
Here are the National Weather Service's updated snowfall totals.
On Nov. 17, 2014, we had no idea what we were in for: back-to-back lake-effect blasts that buried parts of Western New York under snowfall mea…
The snow starting falling in Buffalo on Thursday evening.
Snow on Transit Road as lake-effect snowstorm begins on Nov. 17, 2022.
Trucks are driving on the NYS Thruway despite a state-imposed ban on commercial trucks during the November 2022 lake-effect storm.
Big trucks driving on the New York State Thruway during the snowstorm despite Gov. Hochul's ban on commercial vehicles
Snow coming down in Amherst along the Thruway, at Transit Road, as lake-effect snowstorm begins on Nov. 17, 2022.
The lake-effect snowstorm turned deadly for a couple of men who died of heart attacks while clearing snow.
On Sunday, even as the building was due for demolition Monday, Braymiller Lane's owner Howard Braymiller started to feel a little more positiv…
Even for the winter-hardened residents of the Southtowns, Friday's snowstorm that dropped more than 4 feet in places left an impression – perh…
