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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 ...
The November 13–21, 2014 North American winter storm (given the code name Knife by local governments and colloquially nicknamed Snovember) 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 from ...
The Tug Hill region is renowned for its bountiful snowfall. The region's topography and location in relation to Lake Ontario often creates ideal conditions for lake-effect snow; snowfall totals for the Tug Hill region average more than 200 inches (16.7 ft; 5.1 m) per winter.
Snowfall totals varied widely across the Erie region over the past 24 hours. The first lake-effect storm of the season piled up to just 3 inches at the Erie International Airport, while Edinboro ...
A lake-effect snow warning remains in place for Erie and Crawford counties through Wednesday at 7 a.m. The National Weather Service in Cleveland forecasts an additional 4 inches to 12 inches of ...
The November 2022 Great Lakes winter storm was a lake-effect winter storm that affected parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.The winter storm caused high accumulations of snow across the Great Lakes region, with several locations receiving 50 in (130 cm) of snowfall across New York, with Hamburg, New York receiving 81.2 in (206 cm) and Orchard Park, New York recording 80 in (200 cm) of snow.
This can cause lake effect snow to fall heavily in one spot, while the sun is shining just a mile or two away. ... The small elevation difference means big time snow totals for the small town ...
Lake effect snow warning. A lake effect snow warning is a bulletin issued by the National Weather Service in the United States to warn of heavy snowfall accumulations that are imminent from convective snow generated by very cold airmass passing over unfrozen lakes ( lake effect snow ). The criteria for amounts may vary significantly over ...