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James19991 t1_j5l8d1b wrote

Reply to comment by Upbeat_Estimate1501 in Weather by Routine-Interview991

Columbus averages 28 inches of snow a year, Toledo averages 37 inches of snow per year, and Cincinnati averages only 23 inches of snow a year.

Pittsburgh meanwhile averages 44 inches of snow per year.

Sure Cleveland and points north and east of there in Ohio can do well with the lake effect, but it's absolutely not true that the other major cities of Ohio are snowier than Pittsburgh.

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Upbeat_Estimate1501 t1_j5l9qup wrote

Cbus is in Southern Ohio as is Cincy (note my original comment discussion the distinction between cities closer to Lake Erie versus southern).

Granted I've only been here in Pgh for about 8 years but in that time I've never seen snow compared to what I was used to growing up in Ohio. Maybe it's just climate change, if you've lived here for a long time maybe you can attest to that? But there's definitely a difference to the dig-your-car-out snows I was used to and moving here seeing very little and only a few storms, if that each winter.

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James19991 t1_j5lbi2k wrote

The area of Ohio that gets the lake effect is really a small portion of Ohio's land area as a whole to be fair. You generally can't get much lake effect in Ohio until you're in and around Cleveland to Youngstown, and points north and east of that. Even in Cleveland, the western parts of the metro area have much more manageable snowfall totals that are not that much worse than what you get around here, while it's the places just east of the city of Cleveland that get dumped on.

Pittsburgh has never been a spot for large 12+ inch snowfalls, but it gets plenty of 2 to 6-in snow falls throughout the year during a normal winter. Just two winters ago we had like four 6+ inch snowfalls throughout the season though, and that was fun

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kyach25 t1_j5lnwpw wrote

This is spot on. I feel like there were many times while I lived on the East Side that we would just get hammered with snow and the West Side towards Hopkins had a lot less. I just think especially with lake effect, it tends to roll in through the East Side more. As someone who loves snow, it was awesome being on the East Side.

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James19991 t1_j5lu4q2 wrote

Bingo. Yeah, if you're on west side of Cleveland, you can't get much if any lake effect from a west wind, and I think the elevation plays a role in those areas to the east too.

I love snow as well, so I wish I could spend a winter in Erie or Ashtabula once.

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