the storm, measured by the cooperative observer at the State University College at Oswego was 68". Retired former federal meteorologist and cooperative observer at Oswego, Elmer Loveridge, maintained a private weather station at his home on Ellen Street in Oswego after the Weather Bureau Office in Oswego was closed in the early 1950s. Loveridge measured 71.5" of snow during the event using standard methodology. The heaviest snowfall centered from northern Cayuga and western Oswego County inland through central Oswego County into the southern Tug Hill of northern Oneida County. Storm totals of roughly seven feet were observed in central Oswego and northwest Oneida counties. Official storm totals include 89.5" at Mallory, Oswego County, 84" at Bennetts Bridge, Oswego County, and 80.7" at Camden, Oneida County. of snow were recorded at Camden, New York on January 31. This is the official largest single day snowfall in New York history. The last day of the blizzard the winds subsided and snowburst conditions prevailed, with the snow falling straight down. Fair Haven did not have official snowfall records at the time, but state troopers reported measuring of snow on the level, where none had been prior to the storm. Syracuse, New York received a record snowfall of which remained their heaviest storm on record, until the Blizzard of 1993. At Oswego, the storm lasted from January 27 to January 31, 1966, a total of 4½ days. The daily snowfall totals for Southwest Oswego, as measured by Professor Robert Sykes Jr, are as follows. January 27, 1966: January 28, 1966: January 29, 1966: January 30, 1966: January 31, 1966: January 22-23, 1966 On January 22–23 of 1966, a cyclone that preceded the Blizzard of '66, impacted western New York. The city of Batavia and Genesee County had of snow fall on that Saturday night alone. The only thing that prevented that snowstorm from becoming a true blizzard like this infamous one of the very next weekend was the lack of high winds. See also List of Regional Snowfall Index Category 4 winter storms References External links YouTube - Blizzard of 1966 1966-1 1966 in Canada 1966 natural disasters in the United States January 1966 events in Canada January 1966 events in the United States January 1966 events in North America