Event
Extreme Buffalo Lake-Effect Snow November 2014
United States
Climate change has already led to heavier-than-normal snowfalls in the Northeast. This may be due to increasingly slow and stagnant air patterns that lock in wintry conditions. Lake-effect snow led to a particularly intense situation in Buffalo, NY at the end of 2014.
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