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A multi-day lake effect snow event off Lake Erie is ongoing, making travel "very difficult" throughout the Great Lakes region as a total of 3-12 inches of new snow was produced near Cleveland ...
Additional lake effect snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches are possible in the far northeast portion of Ohio near Euclid, Richmond Heights and Mayfield on December 2, 2024.
These snowfall maps are simply fun to study—and compare to what happens by the end of the season. In a normal winter (January through March), the jet stream pushes south, nudging storms down, too.
The lake effect largely contributes to the 55–80 inches (140–203 cm) annual snowfall amounts recorded south and east of the lake, and an average snowfall reaching 500 inches (13 m) in the Wasatch Range. The snow, which is often very light and dry because of the semiarid climate, is referred to as the "Greatest Snow on Earth" in the mountains.
The impact of the storms is assessed in six different regions of the United States: Northeast, Northern Rockies & Plains, Ohio Valley, South, Southeast, and Upper Midwest. [1] A category 5 extreme ranking is indicated by a numerical score of 18 or higher on the scale.
In Ohio's Ashtabula County, which borders Lake Erie 50 miles northeast of Cleveland, one town was hit with almost five feet of snow. Saybrook, population 10,000, recorded more than 56 inches of snow.
The February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard was a winter and severe weather event that afflicted the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 9–11, 2010, affecting some of the same regions that had experienced a historic Nor'easter just three days earlier.
Most of these would still allow some snow to fall from the Ohio Valley to parts of the Appalachians. AccuWeather has issued a forecast snow accumulation map for the Northeast that represents the ...