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Lake-effect snow is produced as cold winds blow clouds over warm waters. Some key elements are required to form lake-effect precipitation and which determine its characteristics: instability, fetch, wind shear, upstream moisture, upwind lakes, synoptic (large)-scale forcing, orography/topography, and snow or ice cover.
"Lake-effect snow develops when cold air moves over a relative. When lake-effect snow hits regions of the Great Lakes during late fall and winter, you start to hear meteorologists use terms like ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Nearly 1 million people in the state of New York are under Lake-Effect Snow Warnings on Monday, concentrated mostly in the areas south of Buffalo and around Watertown. This is ...
An active pattern is taking shape across the Great Lakes and interior Northeast states that will produce waves of lake-effect snow through at least midweek, AccuWeather experts say. The initial ...
Lake-effect snow, which can last for only a few minutes to several days, develops from narrow bands of clouds that form when cold, dry arctic air passes over a large, relatively mild lake.
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 ...
Lake-effect rain clouds over the Iranian Caspian coast (June 2016) Lake-effect rain, or bay-effect rain, is the liquid equivalent of lake-effect snow, where the rising air results in a transfer of warm air and moisture from a lake into the predominant colder air, resulting in a fast buildup of clouds and rainfall downwind of the lake. [1]
Lake Effect may refer to: Lake-effect snow, a weather phenomenon commonly produced in cool atmospheric conditions; Lake Effect, an American literary journal;