--- title: Frozen Car in Buffalo: Photos description: Frozen car after lake effect snow falls in Buffalo New York. canonical: https://time.com/4176018/frozen-car-buffalo/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-11T21:29:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:34.651Z og:title: Here's Your Annual Picture of a Frozen Car To Remind You It's Winter og:description: A product of strong winds, freezing temperatures, and flooding from Lake Erie og:url: https://time.com/4176018/frozen-car-buffalo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9204aa8dfb1f641/6988788e2dce01260a9e7468/cyb1yv6wkaamshs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: CYb1yV6WkAAmShs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Your Annual Picture of a Frozen Car To Remind You It's Winter twitter:description: A product of strong winds, freezing temperatures, and flooding from Lake Erie twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9204aa8dfb1f641/6988788e2dce01260a9e7468/cyb1yv6wkaamshs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's Your Annual Picture of a Frozen Car To Remind You It's Winter  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 11, 2016 9:29 PM UTC  WKBW  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 11, 2016 9:29 PM UTC Buffalo, New York, set a new kind of snow record in December, when [it was reported](http://time.com/4139898/snow-buffalo-record/) that there was no measurable snowfall as of December 7\. But now, here’s a photo of a car frozen solid on Monday as lake effect snow blanketed the area. Matthew Bové, a reporter for the [ABC News affiliate WKBW](http://www.wkbw.com/news/wny-waking-up-to-ice-and-lake-effect-snow), showed off [images](https://twitter.com/Matt%5FBove/status/686506258036318208) and video of the four-wheeled icicle on Route 5 — a product of [strong winds](http://myfox8.com/2016/01/11/icy-water-from-lake-erie-creates-unusual-car-icicle/), freezing temperatures, and flooding from Lake Erie. The white stuff fell about about three inches per hour at its heaviest level, [according to](https://weather.buffalonews.com/2016/01/11/buffalo-points-north-to-be-impacted-later-today-by-lake-effect-snow-up-to-6-inches-possible/) one Buffalo News weather report. It is so cold and icy there, in fact, you could play hockey on the pavement, one newscaster joked: > [](https://twitter.com/KatieMorseNews/status/686497017108008961) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4176018/frozen-car-buffalo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4176018/frozen-car-buffalo/"},"headline":"Here's Your Annual Picture of a Frozen Car To Remind You It's Winter","datePublished":"2016-01-11T21:29:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:34.651Z","description":"A product of strong winds, freezing temperatures, and flooding from Lake Erie","url":"https://time.com/4176018/frozen-car-buffalo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9204aa8dfb1f641/6988788e2dce01260a9e7468/cyb1yv6wkaamshs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte9204aa8dfb1f641/6988788e2dce01260a9e7468/cyb1yv6wkaamshs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CYb1yV6WkAAmShs","caption":"","creditText":"WKBW","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4176018/frozen-car-buffalo/","name":"Here's Your Annual Picture of a Frozen Car To Remind You It's Winter"}}]}] ```