Another, more recent lake-effect snowstorm of epic proportions dumped nearly 7 feet of snow across parts of New York in November 2022. Orchard Park received the highest storm total snowfall with a ...

Illustrating the highly localized nature of lake-effect snow, accumulation levels varied widely across the region. ... a Storm Prediction Center meteorologist in College Park, Maryland. ...

What fuels the snow that blankets the Great Lakes? According to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, students are digging ...

The coldest air of the season so far will unleash a tremendous and long-lasting lake-effect snow event from Michigan and Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio in the days following ...

Big storms are nothing new in North East. Gehrlein, who is 51 and has lived his entire life in the area, recalled Christmas Day 2017, when he said the borough was blasted by 5 feet of snow in one day.

Lake-effect snow is pretty delicate. For lake effect to become heavy and meaningful, the clouds in the lake-effect band need to rise and build to between 10,000 feet and 15,000 feet.

Record snow accumulation for that particular day in the Alleghenies is 2.2 inches in 1972 with 3.2 inches on Oct. 19, 1930 for Erie, Pennsylvania. The cold pattern won’t stick around.

Snow totals do not look extreme for this event. Areas impacted by the bands of lake effect could see around 1-2", though some locally higher amounts are possible closer to the lakeshore.

Once the lake freezes, lake-effect snow will no longer occur. But if it stays warm, like in the early months of 2023, we are susceptible to similar conditions, like January 25 .

Lake effect snow is slamming the Great Lakes, with seven states from Wisconsin to New York under snow alerts on Monday. So far, snow totals have reached 65 inches in Barnes Corners, New York; 30 ...