Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Watertown region received 8 to 12 in (20 to 30 cm) of snow with the cold front, but unfrozen Lake Ontario (in contrast to frozen Lake Erie), along with atmospheric conditions favorable for lake effect snow, allowed snow bands to form that resulted in storm totals of 66 in (168 cm) in Watertown, 72.5 in (184.2 cm) in Mansville, 93 in (236 cm ...
The combination of persistent lake effect and cyclonic snowfalls in January 1978 resulted in several all-time monthly record snowfall totals to the lee shores of the lower Great Lakes. The cooperative observer station at the Bennetts Bridge power plant, near Altmar, New York , established an official all-time New York State monthly snowfall ...
The tiny Jefferson County village of Copenhagen, just east of Lake Ontario, had recorded 46 inches of snow as of early Sunday and was expecting another couple of inches at night.
Because Southwestern Ontario is surrounded by water on three sides, many parts of Southwestern and Central Ontario get a large part of their winter snow from lake-effect snow. [27] This region is notorious for the whiteouts that can suddenly reduce highway visibility on North America's busiest highway (Ontario Highway 401) [28] from clear to zero.
Significant snowfall rates in the hardest-hit regions in southern Ontario are producing near-zero visibility on Saturday, causing difficult travel and collisions, and challenging road crews to ...
The pattern setting up over the Great Lakes is ripe for a prolonged lake-effect snow event across southern Ontario. Extremely dangerous travel is expected within these snow squalls through the weekend
The event included the worst 24-hour snowfall on record in the city of Montreal with 43 centimetres (16.9 inches) of snow falling on March 4, for a total of 47 centimetres (18.5 inches), until the one-day record was broken again on December 27, 2012. [3] Higher terrain in eastern Quebec received as much as 80 centimetres (31.5 inches).
Accumulating snow is expected from the eastern Great Lakes through interior New England, with the heaviest snow likely downwind of Lakes Ontario and Erie and in the mountains of New Hampshire and ...