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Golden Snowball Award
Awarded for
most snowfall in a season
Currently held by
Buffalo, New York
Most awards
Syracuse, New York (14)
Website
goldensnowball.com
The Golden Snowball Award is an annual award presented to the city in Upstate New York that receives the most snowfall in a season. The original award was the result of a friendly competition between National Weather Service offices in Upstate New York.
Originally conceived after the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, the competition died out after the Rochester and Syracuse offices closed in the mid-1990s. However, the award was revived during the 2002–2003 snowfall season when Patrick DeCoursey started up a website to inform people about the past competition. Syracuse won the 2002-2003 season and they won every year from then through the 2010–2011 season as well. In the 2011–2012 season, Rochester was the first city other than Syracuse to win since the award's revival. They also received temporary possession of a trophy for the year. The original competition's trophy has been lost, prompting its replacement with a new one donated by a trophy shop in Syracuse. The current Golden Snowball trophy resides in the Geosciences Department at Buffalo State University.[1][2]
Compared to Syracuse's average snowfall of 127.8 inches, or over 10 feet per year, New York City's annual snow average is a relatively small 2–3 feet per year in the city and about 3–4 feet per year in nearby suburbs. This is due to a number of factors, including lower latitude and oceanic influence keeping much of the precipitation as rain in the winter, combined with distance from the Great Lakes keeping the city well away from the influence of lake-effect snow. For the first time ever, during the 2005–2006 winter season New York City did have more snowfall than Albany, mainly due to the Blizzard of 2006, which was the city's biggest snowfall to date, while Albany was on the extreme northern fringe.
The cities that compete for the award are:
Albany
Binghamton
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Until the 2006–2007 season, several smaller cities also competed for a smaller award, that includes a $50 check. These are:
Fulton
Oswego
Utica
Watertown
^Vermette, Stephen (26 August 2022). "Golden Snowball Trophy on Campus". Buffalo State University. Retrieved 15 January 2024. The Buffalo State Geography and Planning Department is hosting the trophy on behalf of the City of Buffalo.
^Watson, Stephen (14 September 2023). "Snow contest: Buffalo lapping the field in Golden Snowball, Snow Globe rankings this winter". Buffalo News. Retrieved 15 January 2024. This is welcome news to Stephen Vermette, who teaches meteorology and climatology at SUNY Buffalo State University and is the keeper of the Golden Snowball trophy here..
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