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A cold northwesterly to westerly wind over all the Great Lakes created the lake-effect snowfall of January 10, 2022. Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water. The lower layer of air, heated by the lake water, picks up water vapor from the lake and ...
What is lake-effect snow? Lake-effect snow is no rare thing in the regions surrounding the Great Lakes.It falls when cold air from Canada moves across the Great Lakes, forming clouds that can ...
Valparaiso Moraine. Coordinates: 41°30′37″N 87°3′29″W. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a land form left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of ...
Part of the 1977–78 North American winter. The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. It is often cited as one of the most severe blizzards in US history. [1]
Some highly prone areas for road closures with the upcoming lake-effect event include Interstate 81 from Syracuse to near Watertown, New York, Interstate 90 in western New York and northeast Ohio ...
Temperatures crashed to wintry levels across the northeastern quadrant of the nation, and as colder air poured over the unusually warm waters of the Great Lakes, lake-effect snow piled up downwind ...
The February 2007 North American blizzard was a massive winter storm that affected most of the eastern half of North America, starting on February 12, 2007 and peaking on Valentine's Day, February 14. The storm produced heavy snowfalls across the midwestern United States from Nebraska to Ohio and produced similar conditions across parts of the ...
As of early Tuesday, lake-effect snow during the outbreak has piled up to between 3 and 4 feet in the towns south of Buffalo, New York. In the city of Buffalo alone, snowfall through midday Monday ...