by Ninersphan » Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:10 pm
[quote:d7fa0f850d="kaviksdad"]That's funny Bill - on the radio this morning they were talking to someone in upstate NY that just got a couple feet of snow.
I didn't hear a repeat did I?[/quote:d7fa0f850d]
Well, lemme explain how this works, New York is BIG freaking stae, ONly Texas and Cali, have more landmass. Unfortunalty the media slant is that EVERYTHING north of Poughkeepise is considered "Upstate" and worse cow country. The fact is, there's the Capital Region, near Albany on the eastern Edge of the state; Central NY, where I was born and Raised, Syracuse being the "major" city there; Western NY where I now live, encompassing Rochester/Buffalo and environs; and theres the Adirondack region in the North Eastern corner of the state, where Lake Placid is located, which is it's own little world. The weather in all these places is rarely the same on the same day, due to lake Erie, lake Ontario and the Adirondacks.
So when you here "upstate" New York, in a nataional news broadcast, especially one coming from New York City they are likely refering to the area norht of Poughkeepsie and into the capital region in the South eastern corner of the state. Occasionlay they will use Upsate when they should say Central, which is likely in the case you mentioned, Syracuse being the Snow Capital of the country. ( More annual snow than Anchorage Alaska, look it up.)
If you hear Western NY, then you can panic for me, Central, for my family.
Here endth the geography/weather lesson. :D
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Ninersphan on Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.