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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 ...
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 October 2006 Buffalo storm was an unusual early-season lake effect snow storm that hit the Buffalo, New York, area and other surrounding areas of the United States and Canada, from the afternoon of Thursday, October 12 through the morning of Friday, October 13, 2006. [2] It was called Lake Storm Aphid by the National Weather Service office ...
"Some of the most favored snow belts in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 'ski-country' south of Buffalo and the Tug Hill Plateau in northern New York are likely to challenge or perhaps even exceed ...
The area just a few miles south of Buffalo, New York, was the focal point of a vigorous band of lake-effect snow that unloaded over 6 feet in some locations, with people running out of places to ...
A lake-effect setup brought snow along with dangerous snow squalls to several states and some well-traveled highways as far to the southeast as the mid-Atlantic region Tuesday night, and bands of ...
A house almost completely buried in snow in Tonawanda, New York (January 30, 1977) The blizzard of 1977 hit Western New York and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1 of that year. Daily peak wind gusts ranging from 46 to 69 mph (74 to 111 km/h) were recorded by the National Weather Service in Buffalo, with snowfall as high as 100 in ...
A historic lake effect snow event will blanket swathes of the country in white into the weekend, with up to five inches of snow possible in in Buffalo, New York.