Sentences with phrase «heavy lake effect»

Significant beam blockage could erode our ability to time and track heavy lake effect snow bands that severely impact travel which would lead to less accurate decision support to the Thruway Authority.

Heavy Lake Effect snows hammered areas south of Buffalo overnight.

Heavy lake effect snow is nothing new for people who live in Oswego County.

Not exact matches

Heavy snow of the lake - effect variety blanketed the Southern Tier and the southern half of Erie County yesterday in two feet or more of snow.

Heavy lake - effect snows crisscrossed the region Wednesday, causing widespread traffic migraines in many communities.

The National Weather Service predicted heavy lake - effect snow, with total snow accumulation of 2 to 3 feet in areas of the most persistent lake snows.

One city school was damaged by the heavy and melting Lake Effect snows.

Unlike lake - effect which can be light and fluffy, the complex storm system that moved into the region Thursday night had blown east by late morning brought especially heavy snow.

An early, heavy lake - effect snow season will put northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York into the zone of winter's worst snow and cold, according to the team.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

While it is true that warmer temperatures can produce heavier snow — as anyone who lives within range of lake - effect snow, which mostly falls before the Great Lakes freeze over or become too cold to generate the condensation responsible for heavy snow, can attest — we have been seeing both heavier snow and colder temperatures, both in the United States and in Europe, and not merely this winter, but for a number of winters running.

It's only tangentially related to climate change discussions, but a microclimate in Death Valley, California has given rise to some interesting physical effects and much controversy regarding the ways big heavy rocks can be seen to have moved around on the bottom of a playa lake, untouched by external, unnatural forces.