Weather History for December 27

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Western New York Weather History

DECEMBER 27

1977

26^TH-28^TH… Bitterly cold air arrived on Christmas day and persisted through the 28th. The flow of cold air created heavy lake effect squalls mainly south of Buffalo on the 25th and 26th. One to two feet of snow was dumped on many locations. The N.Y.S. Thruway was closed on Christmas night from Lackawanna to the Pennsylvania line and remained closed through the 27th. The squalls moved northward on the night of the 26th and produced up to 20 inches of snow in a narrow band centered over Lackawanna, south Buffalo, south Cheektowaga, Lancaster and Depew. The band shifted on the 27th and moved well north of Buffalo on the 28th with the heaviest snowfall over Grand Island and Tonawanda.