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    Lake Placid, NY · 32°F

    How much snow does Lake Placid, New York get?

    Today. Flakes incoming.

    Snow now. Snow today, low 32°F.

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    Snow in the next 5 days

    • Satsnow33° / 32°
    • Sunclouds and snow36° / 29°
    • Monclouds and snow38° / 31°
    • Tueclouds47° / 33°
    • Wedclouds50° / 37°

    Lake Placid gets snow today. Nobody asked, as usual.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    A typical winter

    Snow a year
    104 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    42
    Winter high
    26°F
    Winter low
    9°F
    First freeze
    Sep 22
    Last freeze
    May 27
    Nights at 32°F or below
    184
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    22.7, 21.0, 21.0 in

    December is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 23 inches.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Sep 22 and the last spring one around May 27, which leaves about 118 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 9°F to 26°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 184 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in New York

    • Oswego: about 140 inches of snow a year
    • Lowville: about 127 inches of snow a year
    • Watertown: about 116 inches of snow a year
    • Auburn: about 109 inches of snow a year
    • Indian Lake: about 102 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00304555 at Lake Placid. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.