Syracuse, N.Y. -- The upcoming winter should mark a return to normal for Upstate New York, with heavy lake effect snows and nor’easters combining to bring delight to snowmobilers and skiers.

Snow totals should be similar to last year’s, which was only slightly below normal after five years of much-below normal snowfall.

Syracuse had 105 inches of snow last season. The long-term average is about 120 inches.

“We may have totals that are very similar to that again from last year,“ said Paul Pastelok, a long-range meteorologist with Accuweather. ”I think it’s a healthy snow season for us.”

Before last season, Syracuse had seen five consecutive years of snowfall below 90 inches. In the abnormally warm winters of 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, snowfall was just half of normal.

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