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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 can be extremely dangerous due to the intensity of snow it can produces, where upwards of 6 inches an hour can happen, but also due to the sudden changes in conditions a shifting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Lake-effect snow, which can last from 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.
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 This story is no longer being updated.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 ...
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 ...