SUNY Oswego/Presidential Scholarship

hudsonvalley51
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:12:34 +0000

Muffy – The average snowfall in Syracuse, which is on the fringe of the snowbelt, is a little over 110 inches per year. Oswego gets significantly more snow – probably 150+ inches. Oswego has had some truly epic snowstorms, some in excess of 100 inches over 48 hours. Doesn’t happen every winter of course. The snowbelt storms can be very localized. I went to grad school at Syracuse’s Maxwell School. I recall several times setting out from my apartment in Syracuse in brilliant sunshine to visit my sister, who went to Oswego. By the time I was 5 miles north of Syracuse snow was falling at a rate of 2" per hour. By the time I got to Fulton it was coming down at a rate of 4" per hour. By the time I reached the northern limits of Fulton it was really snowing hard and I had to turn back and wait for another day. In those days I thought driving in a white out was fun. Glad I don’t have to do that anymore but there are thousands of students at Oswego who don’t bat an eye when a foot of snow falls while they’re sitting through Bio 101.