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This is a miserable way to live. Skip the extra $$ for gear, the salt damage on cars, and the extra chores.
Interestingly, I lived just east of a lake (reservoir) in Texas which seemed to always deflect weather coming from the west. I have no idea if the lake actually made any kind of significant meteorological difference, but the correlation was really interesting, almost a reverse lake effect. A lot of rain and storms went both north and south of us, and only once was a snow present which was so strong that the lake didn’t seem to deflect it.
What is amazing is that the amount of snow that Buffalo can pile up is nothing short of amazing. Winter 2022/23 they had 133 inches (337 cm) of snow for the season. But that's nothing, the winter of 2000/01 piled up 158 inches (401 cm) of snow. It's just crazy the amount of snow they get there.
Despite the cold temperatures for the past 10 days, much of the great lakes are still ice free, so lake effect snow will still be possible.
Aside from Lake St Clair, which is mostly frozen, the lakes are only 37-39F though, so maybe the lake effect will be a bit weaker than earlier this month?
Despite the cold temperatures for the past 10 days, much of the great lakes are still ice free, so lake effect snow will still be possible.
Aside from Lake St Clair, which is mostly frozen, the lakes are only 37-39F though, so maybe the lake effect will be a bit weaker than earlier this month?
Not sure how 16% compares to normal but sounds very little being its mid January.
It's pretty low - makes sense given the record warm water temperatures heading into January that the freeze up would be delayed. The mid January cold did jump start the formation of lake ice, but it's still comfortably below average, and the mild next two weeks will probably keep it that way. So we could still get lake effect snow with a cold snap in mid-late Feb.
Ice cover tends to peak pretty late. Lake Erie typically peaks mid February while Superior peaks early March.
Still getting a bit of lake effect snow with the lakes largely un-frozen.
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