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6 feet of snow in Buffalo: What causes lake-effect storms like this?

  • Written by Michael A. Rawlins, Associate Director, Climate System Research Center, UMass Amherst
6 feet of snow in Buffalo: What causes lake-effect storms like this?Parts of the Buffalo area saw more than 6 feet of snow over three days in November 2022.AP Photo/Joshua Bessex

It’s hard for most people to imagine 6 feet of snow in one storm, like the Buffalo area saw over the weekend, but such extreme snowfall events occasionally happen along the eastern edges of the Great Lakes.

The phenomenon is called...

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