Erie, Pennsylvania has taken the lead in the snowiest city in the US contest (pop-100,000 or more) plowing past Syracuse, New York. I could be wrong but I think this is the first time since the Golden Snow Globe contest started that Erie, Pa has been on top.
Erie along with Syracuse is one of the snowiest big cities in the country on average and they finally have some bragging right to go with the snow. Now the question is can they hold on to the top spot on the snow mountain? It’s still pretty close with some of the cities that are in the top 10 right now.
Syracuse is right behind them on the snow trail along with Salt Lake City, Utah, Spokane and Anchorage. Going down to around the top 20 or so, all of those cities are just a storm or two away from sledding toward the top of the mountain. I’m loving that it’s a close contest so far with none of the snowy cities running away with the lead.
Some of the snowiest states this last update were the obvious Pennsylvania along with Michigan and Ohio. Pittsburgh, Pa seems to have a snow groove going too slowly climbing their way up the snow mountain 
As for Syracuse this hasn’t been a good weekend for them and Pennsylvania hasn’t been nice to them. First Villanova knocking off their #3 ranked basketball team and now Erie knocking them out of first pace in the snow contest. I could say more but I won’t for the fact that I am from Syracuse and it probably wouldn’t be anything nice
I’m joking of course and congrats to Erie on taking the lead and congrats to Villanova on a well played game. See ya’s in the Big East Tournament Have a Great Week Everyone
Living NEAR Syracuse in a suburb that is a mere 14 minute drive from the city and airport where snow totals are kept is a bit frustrating. The “snow capitol” of Syracuse doesn’t get anywhere near the totals of the suburbs right on the NW edge of the city due to the numerous lake effect snow bands that relentlessly pound areas just NW of Syracuse. These lake effect bands drop down and stop dead just north of the NYS thruway and sit overnight dumping anywhere from 2-4″ an hour onto the area. Incredibly localized snowfalls. Just FYI for people not from the area. On a typical wintry day in January in and around Syracuse, the city will get 3-4″ and a 14 minute drive towards the NW will get 8-12″ in the same timespan. I frequently make it out of my area through blizzard-like conditions after shoveling nearly a foot of fresh snow from my walk only to get to work in the city 14 minutes later where there has been little to no accumulation and a few flurries in the air. This happens over and over from late Dec through late March, so the totals for Syracuse vs that short drive are tremendous by winter’s end.
Jess, very informative post and I agree. Lots of cities and towns like Baldwinsville, Cicero, Liverpool and the list goes on get more snow on average each season. This is for the snowiest cities with a population of 100,000 or more.
I agree with you also about when they say North of the Thruway they mean it. When I use to do construction work I did a lot of houses just a mile north of the Thruway. I can’t say how many times I left the job at the end of the day in a snow storm (LES) only to cross over the thruway bridge and see nothing. One of the things cool about lake effect snow and bands IMO.
Living in Erie,Pa..I can say that I don’t think having the most snow so far is a good thing.I hate snow and after 67 years of living here I’m tired of it. LOL.
Same here in Syracuse Richard but at least most of us got a break last season. Still a lot of time left in this season though.