{"id":11108,"date":"2025-10-22T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:20:09","slug":"snow-will-fall-but-how-much-does-accuweathers-winter-forecast-show-for-the-erie-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11108\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow will fall. But how much does AccuWeather’s winter forecast show for the Erie area?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, many residents in the Erie area were caught off guard by the massive amount of snowfall that took place after Thanksgiving<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The heavy accumulation of lake effect snow that began right after Thanksgiving Day on Nov. 28 caused school, road and business closures across Erie County.<\/p>\n

State forecast: Old Farmer’s Almanac winter weather forecast 2025: How much snow will Pennsylvania get?<\/a><\/p>\n

The 2025-26 meteorological winter, as predicted by weather experts, begins on Dec. 1. AccuWeather<\/a> is predicting a mild winter in the United States but with frigid temperatures and heavy snow making an occasional appearance. Astronomical winter begins on the winter solstice, which occurs on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n

AccuWeather predicts a strong lake effect snow <\/a>presence with higher than normal precipitation for areas near the lake.<\/p>\n

How much snow is predicted for 2025-2026?<\/p>\n

AccuWeather predicts that the upcoming winter could mimic the 2024-2025 winter.<\/p>\n

During the 2024-2025 winter season, Erie received 111.1 inches of snow which, according to the National Weather Service<\/a>, was 14 inches above average. The majority of that snowfall began around Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

During the 2023-2024 winter, Erie received 52 inches of snow which was considered a very mild winter.<\/p>\n

AccuWeather is predicting this winter will see some strong lake effect snow that \u201ccould bring higher than normal precipitation to areas near lakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

More: Old Farmer’s Almanac Thanksgiving forecast 2025, when to expect first snow<\/a><\/p>\n

In the areas surrounding Erie, higher snowfall totals than last winter are expected.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh, for example, is predicted to see more snow around February. Buffalo snowfall totals are predicted to be higher than last winter and the seasonal snowfall could exceed the historical average.<\/p>\n

Buffalo is forecasted to receive 90 to 100 inches of snow. Last year Buffalo had 77.6 inches. Pittsburgh is forecasted to see 28-35 inches, which is around what the area saw in 2024 with 34 inches.<\/p>\n

Frozen lake impact: Ice coverage on Lake Erie: How a frozen lake affects weather<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Great Lakes region, there could be blasts of cold air which will fuel heavy lake effect snow.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Sorensen can be reached at Nsorensen@gannett.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: AccuWeather forecast shows what to expect for Erie, PA’s winter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, many residents in the Erie area were caught off guard by the massive amount of snowfall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8799,136,8805,142,138,137,8804,8801,8800,8803,8802],"class_list":{"0":"post-11108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-accuweather","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-area","11":"tag-erie-county","12":"tag-erie-headlines","13":"tag-erie-news","14":"tag-inches-of-snow","15":"tag-lake-effect-snow","16":"tag-meteorological-winter","17":"tag-mild-winter","18":"tag-winter-solstice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}