Intense lake effect snowsqualls buried Buffalo， New York under 37.9 inches of snow in 24 hours -- the citys greatest 24 hour snowfall and biggest snowstorm ever. Watertown， New York recorded 39 inches of snow in just 12 hours， and had 4 inches of snow an hour for 6 consecutive hours.

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The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (first proposed in 1971 by weather newsFoxNewsRobert Simpson and Herbert Saffir) is a 1 to 5 categorization based on the hurricanes intensity at the indicated time. The scale provides examples of the type of damages and impacts in the United Statweather newses associated with winds of the indicated intensity. In general， damages rise by about a factor of four for every category increase.