Lake effect snow occurs when cold air moves over warmer water, picks up moisture, and forms snow. As cold, dry air passes over the warmer lake, it rises, cools and forms clouds that drop snow ...

Why is this good news? Once the lake freezes over the lake effect snow comes to a halt. A cold week ahead: Erie to see snow and temperatures dropping to single digits or lower The National Weather ...

Cold air will continue to move across the relatively warm surface waters of Lake Ontario generating lake-effect snow east and east-southeast of the lake through Sunday night. At times the lake ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the current ice concentration look like and how does this ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Nearly 1 million people in the state of New York are under Lake-Effect Snow Warnings on Monday, concentrated mostly in the areas south of Buffalo and around Watertown.

The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a "Lake Effect Snow Warning" for Oswego County in northern New York, along the banks of Lake Ontario. Up to 10 inches of heavy snow has been forecast ...

However, winds were starting to pick up, which was generating lake-effect snow in the Chicago area. The heaviest lake-effect snow plumes are expected to be around the lake shore, and a steady band ...

Still, it happened somehow — and that's because of the local lakes. Lake-effect snow occurs when cold, dry Arctic air moves over a large, relatively warm lake, creating narrow bands of clouds.

The Arctic blast that’s kept our daytime temperatures frigid for the last few days is slowly melting away as we’re set to climb into daytime highs in the 20s this week. Today, though, much of ...

The National Weather Service in Buffalo has issued a lake effect snow warning with up to three feet of snow in communities along the Lake Ontario shoreline through Wednesday morning as winter ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The pounding of lake effect snow that Central New York has endured over the past week is finally winding down. A few more inches of snow could fall today, especially on Tug Hill ...