Lake Erie's devastating lake-effect snow storms can smother communities with collapsed roofs and impassable roads. Could ...

Data from the National Weather Service indicate that Buffalo's 2024-2025 winter was statistically average, despite some snowy stretches and a couple big storms.

Lake-effect snow along the "least spectacular of the five Great Lakes" is the focus of a National Geographic story published on the magazine's website on Feb. 26. The article details record ...

"It's certainly a possibility," says Joseph Atkison, Ph.D., director of the Great Lakes Program at the University at Buffalo ... the odds of a severe lake-effect snowstorm on Lake Erie's shores ...

accumulating moisture and dumping heavy snowfall in places such as Buffalo and Cleveland. "When we have ice cover, we have much less lake effect snow." When there's no ice cover, McKay says more ...

Open water on the lake could create some lake effect snow this evening ... but areas at the eastern end of the lake near Erie and Buffalo could take longer because the ice there is thicker ...

The National Weather Service Buffalo Forecast Office issued a flood watch for Oswego County starting at 1 p.m. Tuesday through 1 p.m. Thursday. The flood watch follows the lake-effect storm that ...

Those of us living along the lakeshore between Buffalo and Cleveland may take some comfort in the fact that lake-effect snow isn't solely a Great Lakes phenomenon. According to National Geographic ...

those relatively warm waters of the lakes are responsible for very heavy lake-effect snow during the late fall through much of the winter, giving places like Buffalo, NY a well-deserved reputation ...

Closer to home, she is leading a project to examine the history of lake effect snow in Upstate New York. The goal of this work is to help scientists better predict whether such storms could become ...