Upstate N.Y. swamped by 8 feet of snow

It's been cycling cool and warm here in Southern California. We keep missing the rain. They keep predicting rain, but it hardly ever comes. I agree with respondant #1 about "where's the global warming". They always come out with those reports in the middle of the coldest part of winter. I think it would have had more impact in the heat of summer.

Yeah, we already had out blizzard in Colorado. TWice in the same month, actually. Not 8 feet by any means, but I was surprised (I am new to CO) at the LACK of SNOW PLOWS in this state. LIke they never see snow? They don't know how to handle a couple of feet of snow? It was ridiculous. They shut the whole STATE down. I was pretty disappointed. In Michigan, 2 feet isn't much of a big deal, and the road crews would have it cleared within hours. 8 feet however, that's a disastor. Welcome to Global Warming folks, YES, Global Warming causes EXTREME weather and a higher propensity for LARGE STORMS.

When I look at my window this morning....o no...snow again. It is not as cold as it was for last 2 weeks, but they say, more snow is comming.

yes it has been extermely weird in eastern PA, we had the unseasonable warm january which was just fine with me. last week it was so stinking cold out that it hurt to breathe outside and right now it is snowing out and we are suppose to get 4 to 8 inches by tomorrow night. oh the joys.

Do you live in that area of NY? We haven't got much snow here yet but we have had a rather mild winter up till the past week when it got real cold with wind chills in the single digits and teens.

We got our first snow of the season last night. That is very unusual for us. It was only a couple of inches but it was mixed with sleet. I used a snowblower for the first time. I'll never go back to using a shovel again. Lloyd

It is 50 degrees here today, but we have had our cold and sleet for the year. That is bizarre that NY got all their snow in just a few days. It is usually all through the winter for them. This has been one of the warmest winters we have experienced here in the South, Mississippi.

Wow! Firstly, eight feet of snow is crazy. It's been years since we've had anything even close to that where I live here in Missouri. I hate to think of people possibly being snowed in for days because of the amount of snow that has fallen in parts of New York :( Yes, the weather has been pretty strange here, as well. We had, at one point in time, a fifteen day stretch where we apparently had warmer weather than usual here in MO. Now it's really cold, and it's snowed more in the last month than it had the rest of the winter altogether so far. So the weather has been pretty nuts! LOL.

I live in the mountains so getting 8ft of snow has happened a time or two. I totally feel for these people. I still have around five feet of snow in my yard from all the storms this winter, usually we get a storm and maybe we get a foot or two but then thw weather clears and mother nature helps with the clean-up but this winter every single week it is snowing two or three inches so nothing really seems to be melting.

As of this writing I think it is now 11 feet, right? It is about the amount we get in the mountains here in WA state. I think the weather does go in cycles though, and our sun is also just beginning an 11 year cycle too, so we may be in for more of the same weird weather. We have had snow here in western WA this winter, but not a lot. One bad wind storm, and now just the usual rain. Last summer we had 31 days without rain.