It’s not an “officially” kept record, but …
West Seneca (about 7 miles southeast of downtown Buffalo) … with 7” of this falling in just one 30 minute period between 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. on December 2nd according to local storm spotters. If true, this would be one of the, if not the, most intense point snowfall on record anywhere in the world. [emphasis added]
My grandmother lived in West Seneca, but I can’t remember stopping in that town in the last 25 years. I grew up just below the “m” in Williamsville in the outer ring of this diagram of that storm.
Here’s what it looks like when the snow starts to come into Buffalo:
