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And an impressive total of 5 inches of snow was once reported in just 20 minutes in Turin, N.Y. (Typically, a snow total of 2 to 3 inches an hour is considered "heavy.") Sometimes lake-effect snow ...
The Great Lakes are notorious for lake-effect snow due to their locations relative to cold air outbreaks and warmer summer months, but even smaller lakes like the Great Salt Lake of Utah and the ...
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.
When the air rises, clouds form and create a narrow band, which produces lake-effect snow. It can drop about 2 to 3 inches of snow per hour while it lasts. Contributing: Erie Times-News
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]
In New York state, the weather service office in Buffalo said moderate to locally heavy lake-effect snow will continue through Tuesday with "significant additional accumulations." The village of ...
Editor’s Note: Read the latest on the lake-effect snow here.This story is no longer being updated. As biting cold temperatures sweep across a large swath of the US, parts of the Great Lakes face ...
The coldest air of the season so far will unleash a tremendous and long-lasting lake-effect snow event from Michigan and Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio in the days following ...