Last updated October 15, 2021
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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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Cold northwesterly wind over Great Lakes Superior and Michigan created the lake-effect snowfall. Photo: Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell