FINDLEY LAKE — Officially, winter begins on Dec. 21, but in Findley Lake, like so many towns along the Great Lakes, winter weather came in hard and fast the day after Thanksgiving.
According to Dr. Lin Baylis, Executive Director of Community Connections at Findley Lake, the total snowfall from Black Friday until the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 4, measured 79 inches. And it has continued to fall . . .
Baylis said the total snowfall for the winter of 2023-24 was only 94 inches, which is about a foot more than the accumulated total for this year. She has been helping to keep track of snowfall amounts since 2001, she said, when Bill Boria, former county water resource specialist at the Chautauqua County Health Department started a weather station in Findley Lake…