Weather 30 years ago Northwest PA/NorthEast Ohio November 9th-14th

[CRB]

Veterans Day Lake Effect Snowstorm 30 Years Later

Remembering Ohio's greatest single storm snowfall that occurred November 9-14, 1996

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Very interesting lake effect weather story.

Anyone remember that storm in November 1996? I remember fishing the days before and getting into quite a few Coho and Steelhead.
It was a storm just a little south Erie.
Travel was very tough through the week.
The rest of the season when I could get out fishing was very good. Back then the numbers of fish were high and pressure was not like it is now.

 

[TimMurphy]

Dear CRB,

I remember fishing in State College around that time. My brother and I were visiting Flyfisher's Paradise Fly Shop when some guy rolled in with a full pick-up bed of snow. He said he had to get out of Erie, so he came to Spring Creek.

Coincidently, Spring Creek fished much better in 1996 for the same reasons! 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[rustbeltwilds]

Veterans Day Lake Effect Snowstorm 30 Years Later

Remembering Ohio's greatest single storm snowfall that occurred November 9-14, 1996

storymaps.arcgis.com

Very interesting lake effect weather story.

Anyone remember that storm in November 1996? I remember fishing the days before and getting into quite a few Coho and Steelhead.
It was a storm just a little south Erie.
Travel was very tough through the week.
The rest of the season when I could get out fishing was very good. Back then the numbers of fish were high and pressure was not like it is now.

Yeah amen to that this truly were the good ole days in steelhead alley

 

[Zipper]

I live in northeast Ohio. We received 48" of snow over four days. Funny thing is, most of came at night. We woke up every morning, the driveway was plowed, and went to work.

 

[RLeep2]

I am a southern Erie County native. At the risk of revealing that I am older than most of the geologic formations around here, one of my earliest memories is of the Thanksgiving snowstorm of 1956. I was 4 years old. We went over to McKean/Fairview Twp. to my Dad's cousins for Thanksgiving dinner and were there for 4 days and it wasn't because the turkey was that big or took that long to eat. It snowed like 27 inches on Thanksgiving Day alone. Every inch of it was that 31F stuff that was like Sakrete. A single snowball the size of a baseball became a lethal weapon. The National Guard was called out and nobody anywhere moved until the following Tuesday. It was a doozy, even for those of us who lived most of our lives in the Lake Snow belt.

State Street Snowstorm Thanksgiving 1956

Thanksgiving 1956 Snowstorm on State Street in Erie, Pa. Photo courtesy of Sandra K. Sagala ©SKS 2012. The Great Snowstorm of 1956 T...

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