1:00 AM – Wednesday - OK, I just updated the top 10 snowiest cities and so far no changes since earlier. I’m looking at the snow stats and remember this post is coming from the Oracle of the Syracuse Golden Snowball snow stats so I am definitely puling for the Northeast cities verses the rest of the country. I will and do try to keep it unbiased though. Syracuse (Woo Oho – see unbiased) so far is in the lead but there are several cities that have some of us in the NY area a little worried 
I think the city that scares me personally the most of becoming the King of The Snow Mountain for the first ever Golden Snow Globe Award is probably Erie,Pa. They have shown over and over again that they are definitely a worthy competitor when it comes to piling up the snow.
Other cities to pay a ton of attention to are the other snow belt cities in New York. Buffalo and Rochester! They are due to overtake Syracuse and it’s just a matter of time. It’s been several years but this could be the snow season that one of them skates to the top.
Michigan has been on a roll. Several of the cities around the Great Lakes seem to be catching up pretty quick to the top cities. The big factor in my opinion right now is which way the wind blows and how much of the lakes start to freeze over. With the cold temps the last couple of weeks the chances are that Lake Erie may be pretty much almost frozen over which may stop the Buffalo and surrounding cities from compensating on the lake effect snow but never count them out.
This being the first National Snow contest ever and me being the clueless person that I am when it comes to Geography I think I’ll have to read up on how the other great lakes freeze up, if they even do in the cold months. Either that or ya all can clue me in on it. Feel free to leave comments about the weather in your neck of the woods.
Hey, Have a Super Day All!
Early – 1/12 - I’ll post a summary of this latest update later but as it stands Fort Collins, Co has finally been knocked down the snow mountain I think for the first time this season. I’m sure they will be back though along with several of the other cities. My bet is there are going to be several lead changes in the next several weeks. Stay Tuned and Congrats to Syracuse for taking the king of the mountain. For now anyways 
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It looks like Erie still has a ways to go before it freezes over. Of course I’m probably reading it wrong
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/eicethk+01.gif
Patrick, once their lake freezes over, Erie and Buffalo will be nothing to worry about.
I’m not too worried about Erie, for the same reason that Buffalo falters in the middle of most seasons: Lake Erie will freeze over at some point. Then you can kiss the Lake Effect good bye for those cities.
The Michigan cities, however, are the ones where one good LES storm could really change the standings up a bit. As far as I know, the Great Lakes surrounding Michigan are deeper than Erie, so it’ll be longer until they freeze over, if that should occur.
The Colorado cities could get enough out of a couple storms that end up just skimming the Northeast, so I wouldn’t rule them out yet either.
So, as far as any U.S. city toppling Syracuse goes, I’d first suspect the Michigan cities followed by Colorado ones.