To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. St. Patrick’s Day Blizzard - 1936 Many old timers don’t care whether or not Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, or if March comes in like a lion or a lamb. Their gauge is: if we can just get past St. Patrick’s Day, the very worst of winter is over. They don’t base this theory on folkore or legend, but on a snowy precedent. Even though it was more than 80 years ago, seniors love to tell the tale of how a late season storm seized the city on St. Patrick’s Day. It dropped more than 20 inches of snow on everyone’s shamrocks and shillelaghs in a single afternoon. So why did it snow on St. Patrick’s Day? Luck of the Irish, of course. Left: A float parked at Niagara Square patiently waits its turn to march down Delaware Avenue as part of Buffalo’s extraordinary St. Patrick’s Day Parade page 27