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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 ...
The 1905 Blow (1905) The Mataafa Storm of 1905 is the name of a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November 27–28, 1905. [12] The system moved across the Great Basin with moderate depth on November 26 and November 27, then east-northeastward across the Great Lakes on November 28. Fresh east winds were forecast for the Great Lakes for ...
Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 (historically referred to as the "Big Blow", [3] [a] the "Freshwater Fury", and the "White Hurricane") was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and Southwestern Ontario, Canada, from November 7 to 10, 1913.
Coordinates: 42°2′55″N. Portage Lake is a 510-acre lake located near Mendon in the Michigan county of St. Joseph. [1] A glacial-origin lake, it is fed and drained by the Portage River. The lake is variously reported as 37 feet and as 60 feet in maximum depth. [2] [3] The lake was surveyed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in ...