A week before Christmas, the season's first measurable snow finally arrived in Buffalo, New York, ending the city's longest wait for a season's first snow in records dating to the late 19th century.

Colder winds blowing over led to the development of a lake-effect snowbandFriday afternoon into part of Saturday.

Initially, winds a little south of due west in the lower levels of the atmosphere steered that lake snowband just far enough north to scrape parts of the Buffalo metro area Friday afternoon.

This brought 0.1 inch of snow to the official observing site for the city just before 7 p.m. on Dec. 18, , enough to finally halt the record late first snow streak. As a reminder, 0.1 inch or more of snow is considered "measurable" by official National Weather Service standards.

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South of Buffalo, thundersnow was reported Friday afternoon in Hamburg, New York. Through Saturday, a foot of snow was reported near Springboro, Pennsylvania.

In the Lake Ontario snowbelt, over the Tug Hill Plateau north of Syracuse, more than two feet of snow piled up during the lake-effect snow event in some locations. Lyonsdale, New York, picked up 36 inches inches of snow by Saturday evening while Redfield saw 19.5 inches.

Farther west, impressive 23 inches of snow was measured over a two-day period in Chassell, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula's Keweenaw peninsula.

In Lower Michigan, 8.8 inches of snow was reported near Lawton, Michigan, and 7.5 inches piled up near Portage, Michigan, by late Friday night.

A heavy burst of snow contributed to a Friday afternoon.

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Despite this new snow, a White Christmas in these areas is looking less likely. Another round of potentially record-smashing warmth is headed into western New York on , with the vast majority of precipitation falling as rain.

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Prior to this year, Buffalo's longest wait for the season's first measurable snow was in 1899, when the flakes didn't arrive until December 3.

In an average season, through December 17, the city would've had roughly 22 inches of snow so far. This is roughly six weeks later than the average first date of measurable snow, November 5.

Buffalo's season-to-date snowfall through December 17, compared to average and the start of the 2014-2015 season.

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Last November, with up to 88 inches of snow. Some .

, weather.com meteorologist, said don't necessarily write off Buffalo's snow prospects the rest of this season. Vagell wrote in that two of the five strong El Niños of record actually produced above-average snowfall in Buffalo, in 1957-58 and 1965-66.

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The other three strong El Niños were below average for snow, but the least snow in any of those periods, the 1982-83 season, finished with 52.4 inches at Buffalo, far from a snowless winter.

The least snowiest Decembers at Buffalo were 1889 and 1891, each with 1.1 inches. The winter of 1889-90 finished with just 22.4 inches, less snow than any other season on record. But 1891-92 finished with 80.9 inches, much closer to average.

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