While a larger parent storm system is typically required to produce heavy rain or snow events, lake effect snow is unique. All you need to produce some of the largest snow events on record is cold ...

Is it too early to say it's winter? Last weekend, the first snowfall fell on much of Wisconsin, with parts of Racine and Kenosha counties along Lake Michigan measuring more than a foot of snow Nov. 10 ...

When towns along the Great Lakes get buried in drifts of blowing snow, like several have over the past few days, weather experts start talking about the “lake effect." Lake-effect snow often occurs in ...

LAKE, MICHIGAN, Mich. — The worst of winter is likely behind us. January was a very snowy and cold month for West Michigan, even compared to average. Lake-effect snow has also been very impressive ...

CLEVELAND — In the late 1800s, meteorologists started noticing something very interesting along the Great Lakes in Winter. Cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Erie, PA were getting buried under ...