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“Heavy lake effect snow,” the government agency said. “Additional snow accumulations between 6 and 12 inches in Erie County and 2 to 4 inches in Crawford County.”
More: The surprising reason lake-effect snow buries cities: It's fluffy Rolled cylinders of snow developed in the yard of Janice and Eric Pantelleria in Paw Paw, Michigan on Wednesday, December 4 ...
But lake-effect snow can happen anywhere there is a large amount of relatively warm water that can collide with cold air. "Lake-effect snow sometimes falls more than 100 miles downwind of 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.
The November 13–21, 2014 North American winter storm (given the code name Knife by local governments [4] [5] and colloquially nicknamed Snovember [6]) was a potent winter storm and particularly severe lake-effect snowstorm that affected the United States, originating from the Pacific Northwest on November 13, which brought copious amounts of lake-effect snow to the Central US and New England ...
In the west Michigan snow belt, areas likely to see lake-effect snow include Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Muskegon, Holland and South Haven. The prediction page says 1-3 inches could ...
In order for lake-effect snow to form, the temperature difference between the water and 850 millibars (850 hPa) should be at least 23 °F (13 °C), surface temperature be around the freezing mark, the lake unfrozen, the path over the lake at least 100 kilometres (62 mi) and the directional wind shear with height should be less than 30° from ...
Lake effect snow is expected along the lakeshore in parts of Michigan on Monday, December 2, 2024. Locally significant accumulations are possible, particularly south of Holland.