The multi-day lake-effect snow event produced this scene in Syracuse, N.Y. Photo submitted by AccuWeather.com Facebook fan Aaron G. on Wednesday, Dec. 8. Upload your snow photos on our Facebook page.

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

The lake-effect snow event that has been burying places downwind of the Great Lakes the past several days can be considered historical for Syracuse, N.Y.

Wednesday marked the third consecutive day that Syracuse broke a daily snowfall record.

The 14.9 inches that fell on Wednesday shattered the day’s previous record of 8.9 inches from 1961.

Wednesday is also now Syracuse’s fourth snowiest December day on record. Dec. 30, 1997, holds the top spot with 18.6 inches.

Wednesday’s snow brought Syracuse’s four-day snow total to 43.2 inches, which is just shy of the city’s all-time four-day snowfall record. The four days from Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 1966, ranks first with 44.6 inches.

When the light lake-effect snow that fell on Saturday is added in, the five-day snowfall total at Syracuse equals 44.3 inches. This stretch ranks sixth among the city’s greatest five-day snow totals.

Syracuse does not sit at the top of the snowfall totals list for this multi-day lake-effect event.

Through 6 p.m. EST Wednesday, that honor goes to Lucan, Ontario. A total of 65.7 inches (167 cm) of snow has buried this Canadian town that is located northwest of London.

The multi-day lake-effect event will eventually die down today as an area of high pressure builds into the Northeast. The break in the snowy weather, however, will be extremely brief.

An Alberta Clipper will return some snow to the Great Lakes later today into Friday. More burying snow will get unloaded over the region this weekend into early next week from a monster storm and the lake-effect event that will follow.

Expert Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson warned, “The heavy load of snow may cause roofs to fail.”