ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES NYZ000-PAZ000-OHZ000- . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 01/20/08 0303Z SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678 LATEST DATA USED: GOES-12 0245Z KUSSELSON . LOCATION...W AND C NEW YORK...NW PENNSYLVANIA...NE OHIO... . ATTN WFOS...BGM...BUF...CLE... ATTN RFCS...NERFC...OHRFC... . EVENT...LK SNOWS AND RAMIFICATIONS OF UPPER TROUGH MOVING THRU EASTERN LAKES... . SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...LATEST SATELLITE WINDS CONTINUED HAVE LEADING EDGE OF BROAD UPPER TROUGH PUSHING SLOWLY THRU THE WESTERN LK ONTARIO THRU EASTERN LK ERIE AREA. THIS HAS ALLOWED ORIENTATION OF SNOW BAND OFF LK ONTARIO TO SHIFT SOUTH TO A MORE WESTERLY ORIENTATION WITH HIGHEST SNOW RATES NOW MORE INTO N HALF OF OSWEGO COUNTY INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LEWIS. FEEL TROUGH BROAD ENOUGH AND SOUTHERN PART OF TROUGH MOVING THRU OHIO VALLEY THAT A TILT TO SLIGHT NEGATIVE LATER TONIGHT WILL KEEP UPPER LEVEL FLOW FROM GOING TO MUCH NWLY AND AS A RESULT MAY NOT SEND BEST PART OF PLUME SOUTH VERY MUCH THE BETTER PART OF THE NIGHT. THIS WOULD KEEP BEST SNOWS IN OSWEGO COUNTY TO S LEWIS AND SPILL INTO ONEIDA AND WOULD HOLD OFF BEST SNOW INTO ONONDAGA UNTIL LATER TONIGHT/SUN MORNING AT THE EARLIEST. UPPER LEVEL WINDS NOT NWLY UNTIL YOU GET TO CENTRAL AND INTERIOR SE ONTARIO PROVINCE...SO NWLY FLOW STILL HAS SOME TIME BEFORE IT GETS TO EASTERN LAKES. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AS THIS COULD ALLOW FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOWS OF 1-2 INCHES PER HRS OSWEGO THRU S LEWIS COUNTY AT LEAST HALF OF THE NIGHT. . SEE NCEP HPC DISCUSSION AND QPF/S FOR FORECAST. ....NESDIS IS A MEMBER OF 12 PLANET.... . SSD/SAB WEB ADDRESS FOR PRECIP ESTIMATES: HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/PCPN/ ...ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT /PS/PCPN/ . LAT...LON 4406 7647 4360 7539 4207 7916 4161 8169 4230 8142 . NNNN