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The side-by-side images below, also from NASA, show this year's snowpack compared to that of the previous three years. The images show the Sierra at the end of winter from 2020 through 2023.
Lake effect snow bands over Central New York Map showing some of the lake-effect snow areas of the United States. Cold winds in the winter typically prevail from the northwest in the Great Lakes region, producing the most dramatic lake-effect snowfalls on the southern and eastern shores of the Great Lakes. This lake effect results in much ...
The 2023–24 North American winter was the warmest winter on record across the contiguous United States, with below-average snowfall primarily in the Upper Midwest and parts of the Northeastern United States. However, some areas, especially in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York saw considerably more snow than the previous winter.
“During lake-effect snow, the weather can vary from bands of locally heavy snow with greatly reduced visibilities to dry conditions just a few miles away,” the National Weather Service in ...
A new blast of lake-effect snow pounded Buffalo for a third day piling more misery on a city already buried by an epic, deadly snowfall that could leave some areas with nearly 8 feet of snow on ...
Heavy snow is a fact of life near Great Lakes. Lake-effect snow goes hand-in-hand with living near a Great Lake. In many cases, a foot or two (30 to 61 centimeters) of snow will fall, but occasionally it can get out of hand. In November 2022, lake-effect storms dumped more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow in western New York. Those wintry ...
A lake effect snow warning is a bulletin issued by the National Weather Service in the United States to warn of heavy snowfall accumulations that are imminent from convective snow generated by very cold airmass passing over unfrozen lakes (lake effect snow). The criteria for amounts may vary significantly over different county warning areas. [1]
One of the most noteworthy lake-effect snowfalls in New York State occurred over a 10-day period from Feb. 3-12, 2007, when an incredible 141 inches of snow (that's 11.75 feet) were measured in ...