Big Turk

OK bro... Either you don't live in this area or you don't know how snow plows work during these conditions.

2+ feet is not a few inches. Mix that with alcohol and whiteout conditions and that's a recipe for disaster for both people driving and pedestrians trying to leave the stadium. We get it dude...you are the biggest badass that was out barechested walking around during the blizzard last year the entire time and when they found you buried under the snow you were building igloos and doing snow angels.

Most people are not going to have big trucks and chains just laying around collecting dust to use for these situations. Let's be real

As expected we are edging up in snowfall totals ..Buffalo expected total went from 22.2" to 23.1"

I call it the White Wall...if you are coming into a snow band from outside of it, it looks like a giant white wall and as you drive inside of it all you hear is this crazy "whoosh" sound and see snow falling in literally every direction. It's surreal almost.

The danger is a quick slant, a defender slipping and then a house call

If I gave you a Japanese textbook and told you to read it, would you be able to? Most likely not. Same concept. They can have all the information but without knowing how that effects things on a local and granular level they don't do much good. All they can do is give a general guideline. Read the forecasts on NOAA Buffalo and then these and you'll see how they differ usually quite a bit in these events.

There isn't that much uncertainty. It's going to be 25-30 mph winds with 45 mph gusts, there will have been a foot or more of snow that has already fallen by game time from afternoon Saturday thru early Sunday and it will be snowing heavily for much of the game. Chance of precip is 100 %

I would almost prefer Williams out there at LB in this game. Steelers aren't going to try and trick you, they will just run right at you. Williams is a heat seeking missile in those situations... Bills also re-signed AJ Klein who might be valuable as well since they wouldn't be able to expose him in pass coverage most likely but he is very solid against the run and his run fits

Really? Douglas would be huge in a game where the longest pass attempted by the Steelers might be 10 yards? Especially with Hamlin's terrible angles in run fits.

Because unless they are in this area and have years of experience they don't know their ass from their elbows in these events because they have never actually forecasted these events. The models give guidance but the actual forecasts are based off of a LOT more than this with these events which come from many years of experience and seeing how similar scenarios played out previously. There is far more granularity required than what they are going to have...a slight wind shift can cause the snow to move 10 miles and cause one place to get buried and another to get nothing. There is no way for these big outlets to forecast that properly. They are fine 99% of time, just not when truly localized events like this happen.

Not really. Those games are cancelled due to travel to/from the game and parking lot issues...there is nowhere to park and plow crews aren't worried about trying to plow parking lots out when streets aren't open. Also a political issue where people demand to know why they are wasting resources there when their streets aren't plowed in case of medical emergency

Stop looking at anything that is not NWS Buffalo or Donn Paul. Those forecasts are meaningless. This is a localized event and they don't have the ability to forecast those.

He is talking about the ground crews preparing the stadium for the game

The Fins will have lost that game the second they step off the plane.

He has pretty much been the coach in waiting apparently He effectively was the DC this year apparently.

If I was a betting man, I would project those totals to rise upward over the next 24 hours

Ground crews will be prepared. Jeffrey Fowler with the Penn State Cooperative Extension works closely with grounds crews all over the world. He said the Bills crew has seen snow before. "Armageddon could hit them and they wouldn't even know the difference," Fowler said over Zoom.

Yes and 8-12 inches Saturday night prior to this. Yes...Buffalo is showing 22.2" currently as the projected storm total thru Monday morning

From what I am reading it seems the bands will be moving more than normal, steering the heaviest snow to different areas

Haha, then you should move away from Elmwood because you miss out on the majority of the lake snow events. Yeah, it's definitely becoming more irritating and as I get older I am getting more and more tired of the giant snowpiles to deal with are becoming more frequent. Never had a 7 foot snow event until 2014 and that was described as a "once in 1000 year storm" and it literally happened again 8 years to the day later.

If you lived thru last year's winter and were south of Williamsville, you would get it. Last year almost broke me and I grew up here and have lived here my whole life outside of a 12 year period in my college years and the 8 years after. 35+ years. In the snow belt areas. It's simply changing. The heavier storms are becoming more frequent due to the lakes often being at record warm temperatures now and the amount of moisture that can be sucked up and then dumped is directly proportional to the difference between the air and water temperature, which is becoming higher and higher over time. I'd much rather get 7 feet over 4 weeks than have 7 feet in 2 days and then nothing for the other 3 weeks and 5 days. That's the main difference

Not sure..especially since by the time they clear the seat and get done with a section it will have just as much snow on it as before they cleared it since it will be still snowing heavily. Plus with the wind blowing around it may just blow it back onto the seats

So far it just looks cold without much wind...like 23 and winds 10-15 mph.