Winter Weather — Southern Erie, Pennsylvania

2025-11-09 to 2025-11-11 · Southern Erie, Pennsylvania

Event narrative

Low pressure moved across Pennsylvania on November 9th, before shifting east into New England and lingering through the 10th and 11th. Behind this low, a lingering trough and an early season blast of cold air combined with northwest winds to bring accumulating lake effect snow. The snow was spread out over a prolonged period of time (about 36 hours) and did not hit local heavy snow criteria. However, total accumulations as high as 8.5 inches were reported on social media by a ski resort in Edinboro. Other selected spotter reports include 7.8 inches in Elgin Township and 6.3 inches Greenfield Township, with a CoCoRaHS observer in Corry reported a storm total snow accumulation of 7.2 inches.

Wider weather episode

Low pressure moved across Pennsylvania on November 9th, before shifting east into New England and lingering through the 10th and 11th. Behind this low, a lingering trough and an early season blast of cold air combined with northwest winds to bring accumulating lake effect snow. The highest snow amounts occurred well-inland across parts of Crawford County. A peak accumulation of 12.1 inches was reported by a Cooperative Observer in Titusville. Trained spotters and CoCoRaHS observers reported accumulations ranging from 6 to 11 inches across much of the rest of Crawford County, with totals over 7 inches also reported in far southern Erie County in Elgin and Corry.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1302639. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.