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The lake-effect snow is likely to diminish by Tuesday night in Michigan and Indiana, but it may persist as long as Wednesday and Thursday in areas farther east.
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 rises through colder air. The vapor then freezes and is deposited on the leeward (downwind) shores.
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 glacial till and sand. The Valparaiso Moraine defines part of the continental divide known as the Saint Lawrence River Divide, bounding the Great Lakes Basin. It begins near the border ...
That’s because the snow came from a rare band of low-pressure systems called mesovortices that formed over Lake Michigan. More than a dozen arranged themselves into a tight band with a braided ...
St. Joseph, colloquially known as St. Joe, is a city and the county seat of Berrien County, Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,856. [5] It lies on the shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, about 90 miles (140 km) east-northeast of Chicago. [6] It is home of the American Society ...
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 St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in Michigan at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan. The station was built in 1832 with the current lights built in 1906 and 1907; [1] [4] they were decommissioned in 2005.
Map of the United States with Michigan highlighted ... and Tahquamenon, which flow into Lake Superior; and the St. Joseph ... subjected to heavy lake-effect snow.