CLEVELAND — Now that the lake-effect snow is done, how about we talk some totals?
This was a multi-day event, so it's no surprise that the snow really added up very quickly for areas of the primary snowbelt. Heavy lake-effect bands set up with snowfall rates of over 2 inches per hour.
The hardest hit areas were Lake County, Ashtabula County, and northern Geauga County. The overall winner with a whopping 61.7 inches was Saybrook Township in Ashtabula County. That's over 5 FEET of snow!
Just 6 miles away, Geneva got 49 inches, a difference of about 2 inches per mile.
Andover is about 20 miles southeast of Saybrook, so further away from Lake Erie. There, they only picked up 6.3 inches, a difference of 2-3 inches per mile!
Everywhere along and south of U.S. Route 6 in southern Ashtabula County came in with under 1 foot.
All of Lake County was pummeled with snow during this event. Almost every report location in the county came in with over a foot of snow. The northern 2/3 of the county had over 2 feet, and the highest total came in for North Madison. They had a whopping 45 inches.
Areas of far northern Geauga County managed some decent numbers. South Thompson came in with 22.6 inches. Totals fall off drastically from north to south across the county, and some locations in far southern Geauga County barely managed a dusting.
Yet Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, where all of the official records are kept, came in with a whopping 0.1 inches on Thanksgiving, and nothing more than a trace since.
That's all the glory of lake-effect snow! There’s a reason Lake, Ashtabula, and Geauga counties are considered the primary snowbelt.
