A Lake Effect snow squall hit the city of Buffalo mid-morning Friday, but moved to the north before 2 p.m. However, it left behind another one to three inches of new snow and created slick streets.
National Weather Service Meteorologist David Zaff, at the Buffalo Weather Station, tells us we can expect another round of snow fall Friday evening and Saturday.
“We are looking for more snow tonight and into Saturday morning. Everyone in the Buffalo metro area should see anywhere from two to four inches and then during the afternoon, it will change over to rain for a brief period of time. It will warm up into the 40’s,” Zaff stated.
Snow will return Sunday night and into Monday with temperatures dropping back into the 20's.
“Once we get out of the rain event, it will transition back over to snow, at least briefly Sunday night into Monday and will drop back down to 20’s for the highs,” noted Zaff.
Prior to the Lake Effect system moving into the city Friday morning there was a large wall of clouds directly over Lake Erie in downtown buffalo.
Forecasters expect some new systems to arrive into next week.
“We’ll have a few systems to contend with and it will be difficult to tell at this time if it’s going to be rain to snow or snow to rain type of an event. It’s going to be relatively quiet compared to the last two to three weeks that we’ve had with a number of different Lake Effect events throughout Western and Central New York. Here in the Buffalo forecast office we are looking forward to a bit of a break,” declared Zaff.
