MATT FUNICIELLO FOR CONGRESS issued the following announcement on April 22.
While spring has had its moments so far this year, winter has not gone away yet. Tri-Lakes residents awoke on Wednesday, Earth Day, to find a solid blanket of snow had fallen overnight.
That’s fairly normal for April in the Adirondacks, although the northeastern states from West Virginia to New Hampshire are currently experiencing below-normal temperatures while western states are above normal, especially the Southwest. Phoenix, Arizona, is seeing highs in the 90s and 100s these days, according to the National Weather Service.
In Saranac Lake, the snowfall was roughly 3 inches and still falling as of 9:30 a.m., although the sun seemed to be trying to poke through the clouds by that time.
Plow crews were out in force, but roads were icy and snowy.
Matthew Clay, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Burlington, Vermont, said that while the rest of northern New York and Vermont received a bit of snow, the Adirondack area from around Colton to Lake Placid was a “sweet spot” that got heavier snow, between 3 and 5 inches.
The snowfall tapers off just east of Lake Placid. Clay said he talked to a weather observer in Jay who reported three-quarters of an inch at the town garage but 2-and-a-half inches at higher elevation.
Clay said a cold front brought the overnight snow, and that Wednesday morning’s lingering flurries were due to snow blowing down off mountains.
Temperatures were in the 20s Wednesday morning. Wednesday’s high is forecast to be 34 with an upcoming overnight low of 16. Upcoming days show highs in the 40s and low 50s.
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