Residents should stay off of City of Erie streets until it stops snowing, and we can get the roads open.” “This is an incredible amount of snow that we’re trying to move and (we) appreciate resident cooperation. “Roads are dangerous and impassable,” police said on Facebook. The city of Erie declared a Snow Emergency on Tuesday, Erie Police said. The lake effect snow is expected to continue through Wednesday afternoon, the National Weather Service said. The huge snowfall total is a consequence of lake-effect snow, a weather phenomenon in which cold air combines with lake water to create narrow bands of powerful snow. However, the storm, which actually began on Sunday, has dropped a grand total of 62.9 inches of snow on Erie, according to National Weather Service Cleveland. That is the highest two-day snowfall total in the entire state of Pennsylvania, according to the National Weather Service.
The snowfall total was more than four times the city’s previous all-time Christmas record of 8.1 inches, and it also broke the record for most snowfall in one day in the city’s history, which was 20 inches on November 22, 1956.Įrie picked up another 24.5 inches of snow on Tuesday, bringing the two-day tally to 58.5 inches. Erie, Pennsylvania, had a total of 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city’s previous records for snowfall in a single day. And then there’s Whiteout Christmas.Įrie, Pennsylvania, experienced the latter on Monday, when a total of 34 inches of snow fell on Christmas Day, blanketing the city and shattering the city’s previous records for snowfall in a single day. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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