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Erie County, New York got pounded with more snow overnight with an additional 2 feet expected to fall throughout Thursday. VPC



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00:01 Smartphone cars said it was a knife cutting across Erie
 00:04 county slashing through the heart of the county. Yeah it is
 00:08 still doing so that moved northwest I'd ask the weather service
 00:12 predicted. And it's not coming back south. It was in buffalo
 00:16 for quite awhile. Overnight and is still in buffalo we believe.
 00:21 But the intensity is and the hard part of the major
 00:24 part of the storm. This movie into the ski areas where
 00:27 it is already hit so hard. The National Weather Service is
 00:31 predicting for today. Another two to three inches in the most
 00:35 part it there sorry two to three feet. In the most
 00:38 hard hit areas two to three feet more of snow. That
 00:42 will get some places. Took ninety to a hundred inches. Massive
 00:47 amounts of snow this very short period of time. I learned
 00:54 here. I would believe somebody tell it. Because it. When you
 01:00 see cars and always up to. BC snowplows. New York State
 01:06 thruway authority's help while banners thoughtful. State police vehicles that they
 01:11 would fit red light went.







Greg Mitri shovels his way through nearly five feet of snow on Nov. 19 in the Lakeview neighborhood of Buffalo.(Photo: John Normile, Getty Images)



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New Yorkers were bracing for round two Thursday of an epic storm that dumped more than 5 feet of snow and left eight people dead, dozens stranded, thousands of lives disrupted and surreal mounds of snow everywhere.


Much of northern and western New York will be hit by heavy snow through Friday, with an additional 2 to 3 feet possible, AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.


Snow bands could shift more this time around, cutting down on huge accumulations for any one location, Weather Channel meteorologist Michael Palmer said.




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"While the second round of lake-effect snow may be not be as long-lasting, nor as intense, winds may be much stronger this time," said AccuWeather meteorologist Elliot Abrams.


Heavy lake-effect snow will also plaster portions of Michigan over the next few days, the National Weather Service said.






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How does the lake effect work and why does it create so much snowfall? Shannon Rae Green explains. (News, USA TODAY)



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00:03 How would you like to shovel ten feet of snow
 00:05 each winter. People in buffalo New Yorkers certainly used to it
 00:09 right now they're getting slammed with nearly six feet of snell.
 00:13 It's all because of lake effects now Ricky can see in
 00:16 this time lapse in buffalo so what is that anyway I'm
 00:19 Shane gray green for USA today. The lake effect snow machine
 00:23 runs on warm lake water. Early cold snaps while the Great
 00:27 Lakes are still relatively warm are perfect conditions for lake effects
 00:31 now. When cold air passes warm water heated air rises we'll
 00:36 that warm air cooled it creates a lot of moisture which
 00:39 condenses into clouds. Winds pushed those clouds over land and the
 00:43 friction with the ground actually creates more snowfall. All this means
 00:47 the bigger the lake the more snow that gets produced as
 00:50 cold air passes over open and warm water. It often affects
 00:54 groups states close to the Great Lakes like Michigan Indiana and
 00:57 New York. It's creating record snowfall in buffalo right now look
 01:01 at this door broken down by snowfall Leunen. Lake effect snow
 01:05 is produce several records in 198122. Inches of snow fell in
 01:09 Indiana and only three hours. 51 inches piled up on and
 01:14 it's bridge New York in 1959 in only sixteen hours. And
 01:18 in 1990s and then an unofficial record was made with 77
 01:22 inches dropped on the Tug hill plateau in New York over
 01:25 a 24 hour period. Keep up with the latest in the
 01:28 snowstorm and that happens it's all right here on USA today
 01:32 dot com.





Officials in hard-hit Erie County, N.Y., said an eighth person in the state died because of the snowstorm, suffering a "cardiac event" while trying to move a snow plow.


"It is an extraordinary situation," Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters after touring the region Wednesday and talking to truckers who had been stranded for more than 24 hours on the New York State Thruway. "It will get worse before it gets better."




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Crews will keep working to clear streets as officials in Erie County encourage drivers to honor travel bans.


"Do not ask us to rescue you," Rich Tobe, deputy county executive, said. Nobody should be out in the community except essential personnel, he added.




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About 400 vehicles in the area are working to help clear snow, Tobe said. Officials are also turning attention to collapsed roofs, particularly in West Seneca, where mobile homes are experiencing severe structural damage as a result of the heavy snow.


The state will provide additional support when the storm moves out Friday, only to be replaced by flooding concerns this weekend, when warmer air and rain showers are forecast. The extra weight of rain on top of the extreme lake-effect snow could compromise structures and cause localized flooding, the Weather Channel reported.


Such large snowstorms are rare but comparable events have occurred before. New York State's record for a single snowstorm buried Oswego, N.Y., under 102 inches (more than 8 feet) of snow between Jan. 27-31, 1966, according to Weather Underground historian Christopher Burt.


Buffalo's single greatest snowstorm occurred Dec. 24-28, 2001, when 81.5 inches (almost 7 feet) accumulated at the official city weather service site at the airport. The same event also affected the Lake Michigan snow belt around Petoskey, Mich., where a state record for a single snowstorm dropped 85 inches between Dec. 23-29, 2001, Burt said.


The heaviest 24-hour snowfall on record in the Lower 48 states is 75.8 inches, which fell at Silver Lake, Colo., in 1921, according to the weather service.


Contributing: WGRZ-TV; The Associated Press



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