A tiny hamlet in Lewis County just north of the Tug Hill State Forest had the distinction Saturday night of having one of the highest snow readings in New York — 45 inches of the white stuff after lake-effect snows pushed across Lake Ontario and dumped the precipitation in the western part of the North Country.

The State Weather Risk Communication Center at the University at Albany posted some measurements gathered late Saturday night in the wake of lake-effect snow warnings that also included parts of western New York off Lake Erie. In addition to Barnes Corners in the town of Pinckney, Lewis County, which reported a reading of 45 inches of snow, the other communities buried included: 37.6 inches in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County; 36.5 inches in Copenhagen, Jefferson County, and 35.2 inches in Cassadaga, Chatauqua County.

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And more was forecast, particularly south of Dunkirk in western New York, where the National Weather Service in Buffalo said late Sunday afternoon that parts of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties could get another 2 feet of snow by Tuesday. Communities south of Watertown in Jefferson and Lewis counties could see another foot of snow by the end of the day Monday. Lake-effect warnings were in effect for all four of those counties.

The Thruway from Rochester west to the Pennsylvania state line was reopened to all traffic as of Sunday afternoon, but all commercial vehicles remained banned from I-90 in both directions from Exit 46 (Rochester-Corning-I-390) to the Pennsylvania state line.

The state communication center also had a “Bills' forecast” for western New York late Saturday night. While Orchard Park, the location of the Buffalo Bills stadium, got about 20 inches of snow since the lake-effect bands started Friday, it looked like winds would shift south Sunday in time for the Bills' 8 p.m. game. But there could be bursts of heavy snow both before, and after, the game, the center said, with a most-likely scenario of another 3 to 8 inches of snow by kickoff.

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The Thruway Authority posted video from a snowplow on I-90 around Hamburg noting “plows are focusing on the exits used by fans heading to the Buffalo Bills game tonight,” and warning drivers to watch out for the heavy machinery.