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Snow capped in North Redfield. The snow on the level is over 40 inches deep after nearly nearly 6 feet fell to the ground. Lake effect snow quickly settles under its own weight.

(Carol Yerdon)

It was as they say, a good ol' fashion lake effect pounding -- a snowburst -- 60 to 72 inches of snow (confirmed). Put simply, they got hammered -- all of this while a major lake effect research project is going on east of Lake Ontario (http://owles.org/).

9:00 a.m. Saturday Update: Winter storm warnings for much of the northeast U.S. are in effect.

Your forecast

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The weekend

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Sunday:

The sun is out in the North Country.

The band of lake effect snow that was east of Lake Ontario is now a shadow of its former self. It's south of Syracuse and has broken up into smaller bands of snow.

Now that the wind is from the northwest off Lake Ontario, in Central New York, it will still take several hours for the residual snow showers to break down. Generally, 1 to 4 inches of new snow is possible south and southeast of Lake Ontario.

In between those snow showers the sun will be in and out of the clouds.

National Weather Service radar from 1230 PM Friday December 13, 2013.

A little more than 15 inches fell about 5 miles east of Sandy Creek in the town of Bolyston in southern Jefferson County.

In the wake of this lake effect event, parts of Oswego, Jefferson and Lewis Counties are now under 2 to 5 feet of snow.

If you have ever shoveled, and who hasn't, you know that snow has weight -- even Lake effect powder. Pile that up enough and lake effect quickly settles under it's own weight.

In North Redfield, when it finally stopped at around 9:45 Friday morning, Carol Yerdon had measured 72 inches of snow that had fallen out of the sky for an impressive snow base of 41 inches.

Here are some specific snow totals as of 7:00 AM Friday morning. In many of these locations it was still snowing at that time.

Lewis County:

Constableville 56.0 Inches

Glenfield 42.0 inches

Highmarket 42.0 inches

Lowville 32.0 inches

Cgroghan 17.0 inches

Oswego County:

Redfield 58.0 inches

Lacona 33.0 inches

Bennetts Bridge 28.0 inches

Pulaski 22.0 inches

The North Country can start digging out.

Our next snow event

A low pressure tracking east from Kentucky will form a new storm just off the North Carolina coast Saturday night and early Sunday. The storm will track northeastward into the Atlantic away from us Sunday afternoon.

However, since that snow will be spread out over an 18 to 24 hour period of time, its impact on us may not be that great.

In Central New York, snow from this storm system will begin around 8 or 9 AM Saturday and will very gradually ramp up during the day. We should have an inch or two by dinnertime.

Then, Saturday evening and Saturday night, the snow should increase in intensity for a while. We should see another 2 to 4 inches overnight.

After the storm

Some more lake effect is possible in the wake of this system beginning Sunday afternoon and lasting through Sunday night. Some of that could be locally heavy. Most likely that would be mainly east and a little southeast of Lake Ontario -- again.

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