{"id":132519,"date":"2026-03-08T00:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132519\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:38:25","slug":"how-much-snow-has-erie-recorded-for-the-2025-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132519\/","title":{"rendered":"How much snow has Erie recorded for the 2025-2026 season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 5, 2026, 5:11 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

As the March weather folklore proverb goes, in like a lion, out like a lamb. That’s how the National Weather Service office in Cleveland<\/a>, which handles the Erie forecast, has described the 2025-2026 winter for Erie, so far.<\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service, Erie’s weather has been labeled as a “mild winter,” despite periods of heavy snowfall and cold temperatures.<\/p>\n

From the Erie International Airport, where the Erie snowfall is measured officially, the National Weather Service has recorded 69.9 inches of snowfall for the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n

In early March, Keith Jaszka, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service says the total amount is 19.2 inches below what is considered a “normal winter” for Erie. The historical average of snowfall for Erie is 104.3 inches.<\/p>\n

“Compared to the past several winters, it was a relatively colder winter and a snowy one as well, despite it being below normal for snowfall,” Jaszka said.<\/p>\n

Weather outlook: Erie winters are shrinking. What a new study says<\/a>A very light snowfall month in February<\/p>\n

The month of February in Erie was light on the snowfall. Jaszka said that the National Weather Service recorded only 5.7 inches of snow in Erie for the entire month.<\/p>\n

In February, the day with the most snow was on Feb. 6 when Erie received 2 inches.<\/p>\n

Back in January, the National Weather Service recorded 31.8 inches of snow for Erie.<\/p>\n

What was the greatest snowfall day in Erie in 2025-2026?<\/p>\n

Jaszka says that the greatest calendar day for the winter of 2025-2026 season was on Dec. 31 when Erie received 9 inches of snow.<\/p>\n

In 2026, the greatest amount of snowfall happened on Jan. 25 when Erie received 8.9 inches of snow.<\/p>\n

What were coldest winter days in Erie this season?<\/p>\n

According to the National Weather Service, the coldest days happened on:<\/p>\n

Jan. 30: minus 9 degreesJan. 24: minus 7 degreesJan. 31: minus 3 degrees\"\"<\/a>Erie drops in the Golden Snow Globe<\/p>\n

With the mild end to winter, Erie has dropped to seventh in the run for the 2025-2026 Golden Snow Globe<\/a>, the national contest for the snowiest cities run by Patrick DeCoursey of East Syracuse.<\/p>\n

In early February, Erie was in sixth place. Now Grand Rapids, Michigan is in sixth place above Erie.<\/p>\n

As of March 4 the top five snowiest cities in America are:<\/p>\n

Syracuse, New York: 134.6 inchesRochester, New York: 107.9 inchesSouth Bend, Indiana: 91.1 inchesBuffalo, New York: 88.3 inchesWorcester, Massachusetts: 77.2 inches<\/p>\n

Syracuse, New York took the Golden Snow Globe in 2024-2025.<\/p>\n

Partly frozen: Lake Erie’s ice has been thawing, but weather shift could change that<\/a>Stay up to date on Erie-area weather<\/p>\n

Return to GoErie.com for updates. Get the latest AccuWeather forecast details and radar images for your ZIP code at\u00a0goerie.com\/weather<\/a>. Download the GoErie app for\u00a0iOS<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Android<\/a>\u00a0for mobile-friendly forecasts.<\/p>\n

Contact Nicholas Sorensen at\u00a0nsorensen@usatodayco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 5, 2026, 5:11 a.m. ET As the March weather folklore proverb goes, in like a lion, out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[596,136,138,137,1169,539,19110,19111,8809,1849,1143,651,2548,952,1174,2547,17092,2551,2545,535],"class_list":["post-132519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accessmetered","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-ny","tag-pa","tag-sstsweather","tag-sstsnweather","tag-tagbuffalo","tag-tagccj-audience","tag-tagerie","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagnational-weather-service","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpennsylvania","tag-tagsnow","tag-tagsnowfall","tag-tagweather","tag-tagwinter","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132519","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=132519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}