{"id":73687,"date":"2025-12-30T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73687\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:02:10","slug":"lake-effect-snow-and-strong-wind-gusts-whip-lake-erie-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73687\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Effect Snow and Strong Wind Gusts Whip Lake Erie Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Motorists in the Buffalo metropolitan area were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYSDHSES\/posts\/pfbid02TrGAeH7v6i5zSXnMz5aGvPYBQzZfkLVr8QMmAGXqn1giqZT5fNbE1Ur3ANn4trZNl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:advised;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">advised<\/a> to stay off the roads as a lake effect snow band and strong winds brought \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSBUFFALO\/status\/2005654655926235364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:near-whiteout conditions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">near-whiteout conditions<\/a>\u201d to the region on Monday, December 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSBUFFALO\/status\/2005586617600225570\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:earlier advised;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">earlier advised<\/a> that flooding caused by excessive rainfall and snowmelt would continue to impact the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Strong damaging winds with peak gusts 65-75 mph were also expected through Monday evening, while heavy lake effect snow was forecast to develop later in the day and last through at least mid week, the NWS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-expands-state-emergency-statewide-response-lake-effect-snow-and-high-winds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:expanded;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">expanded<\/a> a state of emergency statewide in response to lake effect snow and powerful winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYSDHSES\/posts\/pfbid02eX9yZZZdL4Nz56Stdke9RHYtHDDfZkZeaLrFkeWAzyvm8RFSDSQjyiZQTDGcuC1xl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:tracked;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">tracked<\/a> more than 60,000 power outages amid the storm, most of which were reported in the Finger Lakes and Western New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage, captured by Daniel Pollina, shows near-whiteout conditions as snow and winds whipped Blasdell, south of Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe snow and wind has been crazy today. Easily blizzard criteria in some areas and visibility, at times, was near zero, if not zero,\u201d Pollina told Storyful. Credit: Daniel Pollina via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists in the Buffalo metropolitan area were advised to stay off the roads as a lake effect snow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38191,136,138,137,8801,13714,28347],"class_list":["post-73687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-daniel-pollina","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-effect-snow","tag-strong-winds","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73687","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=73687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}