Cold air moving across Lake Ontario set up snow bands impacting St. Lawrence county.
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The episode as NWS BTV wrote it up.
Cold air moving across Lake Ontario set up snow bands impacting St. Lawrence county. Generally between 3 and 6 inches fell under these bands. A few reports included 6 inches of snowfall at Gouverneur...with locally 8 inches in Canton. Elsewhere, 4 inches fell at Potsdam with 2 inches at Massena. The heaviest snow fell along and south of Route 11.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lake-effect snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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