Wunderground.com - 1/22/12, Christopher C. Burt
The typical Great Lakes snow belts.
An epic lake effect snow event started Monday around the Great Lakes. Some incredible snowfall totals have already been racked up.
• Erie, Pa., officially picked up 16.3 inches of snow at the airport Monday alone, making it the snowiest January calendar day on record, and the snowiest day in any month for Erie since Nov. 29, 1979! Snowfall records there began in 1893.
• Other parts of the city of Erie received as much as 24 inches of snow Monday.
• Up to 18 inches of snow fell Sunday through Monday morning in Oswego County, N.Y., north of Syracuse.
• Another 19 inches fell in Pulaski, N.Y., during the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
• In western New York, Ripley had a two-day total of 24.8 inches as of Tuesday morning with snow still falling.
• A few places in northern Lower Michigan saw 10 inches of snow in the 48-hour period ending Tuesday morning.
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