SUNY Oswego Webs Cam Spectacularly Shows How Changeable Snow Squall Season Is

An intense snows squall slams into the campus of 
SUNY/Oswego on Monday. See the series of photos
at the bottom of this post to watch how the
squalls unfolded. 

I occasionally checked in with State University of New York/Oswego web cams on Monday, watching dramatic views of how fast the weather changes in the winter on the shores of Lake Ontario.

The photos in this post kind of go back and forth a little between two SUNY/Oswego web cams. One   web cam is at Hart Hall, which offers stunning late afternoon views of the lake. The other at Shineman Center is equally as good. 

In the series of photos below, you'll see a large snow squall approach. I believe this dark cloud was a snow squall along a cold front, or a trough line ahead of a cold front. 

The main band of lake effect snow formed a short time later and continued pummeling the lakeshore northeast of Oswego overnight and this morning. 

The squall in our series of photos was almost certainly enhanced by moisture from Lake Ontario. The part of the series from when the wall of snow seems to be at the edge of campus to when visibility drops to near zero came within about five minutes or less. 

Once that squall goes by, it clears up dramatically. But you can see new snow squalls starting to form. The new line of snow squalls, as mentioned, are the ones pummeling areas mostly a little south of Watertown, and a little north of Oswego today. Total accumulation in New York's notoriously snowy Tug Hill region could be up to four feet. 

In this morning's SUNY/Oswego web cams, you can just barely see the heavy lake affect snow band in the distance, on the extreme right edge of the camera's view.  

The cam grabs I have in this video cover about an hour and 15 minute period. The series of photos are below. You can click on individual images to make them bigger and easier to see.  Enjoy!