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2012 was hottest year on record for Buffalo

blog by S.J. Velasquez  • 

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Western New York saw its warmest year on record in 2012, according to the National Weather Service.

The average temperature last year was 52.1 degrees—thats 1.3 degrees higher than the second highest average annual temperature on record for the region,…

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White Christmas report

blog by S.J. Velasquez  • 

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Forecasters are calling it: Buffalo could very well have a white Christmas.

No big news, it seems, as Buffalo is often a contender for the coveted Golden Snowball award, which is based on annual snowfall numbers. But,…

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Heavy snow expected this winter

blog by S.J. Velasquez  • 

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As much as my sun-worshipping colleagues loved the warmer-than-normal conditions this past winter, I was miffed by the lack of snow. I mean, I didn’t move back to my hometown for THIS.

Lucky for snow-lovers like me, the mild winter of 2011-2012 is long…

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Radar detects funky bird migration…or, you know, aliens

blog by Ben Kirst  • 

{video_photo_caption}A radar anomaly in Buffalo caused this spring by birds...sure.

So I am by no means a meteorological expert, nor do I necessary have a very long attention span when it comes to dry technical articles. But from what I could suss out from this article, this past spring—Friday, April 12, to be exact—the

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How snowstorms get their names

blog by S.J. Velasquez  • 

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Tropical storms get exotic human names, but the National Weather Service, located right here in Buffalo, doesn’t want to let hurricanes have all the…