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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 ...
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 ...
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.
1624891. The St. Joseph River (known locally as the St. Joe) is a tributary of Lake Michigan with a length of 210 miles (340 km). The river flows in a generally westerly direction through southern Michigan and northern Indiana, United States, before emptying into Lake Michigan. The St. Joseph River drainage basin covers 4,685 square miles ...
The lake-effect snow peaked on Monday night and Tuesday. While snow showers may be far-reaching, most of the heavy snow accumulation moving forward into early Wednesday is likely to stay closer to ...
At a total area of 97,990 square miles (253,800 km 2) – including those territorial waters – Michigan is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, and the eleventh largest state overall. More than half of the state's land area – 30,156 square miles (78,100 km 2) – is still forest . The state lies roughly between 41° and 49 ...
November 9, 2005. 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. [5]