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How lake-effect snow forms. 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 This story is no longer being updated.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 ...
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 ...
And frigid winds over the near-record warm Great Lakes will usher in the first major lake-effect snow event of the season. More than 6 million people under winter weather alerts could see 6 to 12 ...
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 ...