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The November 13–21, 2014 North American winter storm (given the code name Knife by local governments [4] [5] and colloquially nicknamed Snovember [6]) was a potent winter storm and particularly severe lake-effect snowstorm that affected the United States, originating from the Pacific Northwest on November 13, which brought copious amounts of lake-effect snow to the Central US and New England ...
One of the biggest lake-effect snowfall events on record hammered areas near Buffalo, New York, with 5 feet of snow in a span of two days back in November 2014, resulting in the deaths of more ...
Lake effect snow bands over Central New York Map showing some of the lake-effect snow areas of the United States. Cold winds in the winter typically prevail from the northwest in the Great Lakes region, producing the most dramatic lake-effect snowfalls on the southern and eastern shores of the Great Lakes. This lake effect results in much ...
In Buffalo, New York, another winter storm triggered a strong lake-effect band, which impacted the city and its immediate southern suburbs from November 17–19, 2014, with a second wave hitting November 20 before shifting southward and weakening. [21] As much as 65 inches fell in Cheektowaga. Snow fell at rates as high as five inches per hour ...
A lake-effect snowstorm brought some serious snowfall to the Buffalo, New York, area on Tuesday, November 18. The National Weather Service said the region could see 12 to 14 inches by Wednesday ...
Nearly unimaginable snowfalls have occurred in New York, thanks to lake-effect snow: The tiny town of Montague, downwind from Lake Ontario, holds the "unofficial" world record for 24-hour snowfall ...
Heavy snow is a fact of life near Great Lakes. Lake-effect snow goes hand-in-hand with living near a Great Lake. In many cases, a foot or two (30 to 61 centimeters) of snow will fall, but occasionally it can get out of hand. In November 2022, lake-effect storms dumped more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) of snow in western New York. Those wintry ...
As the developing winter storm moved eastward through the Ohio Valley on January 20–21, snowfall accumulations were generally light, with 1–3 inches (2.5–7.6 cm) generally falling across the region, although isolated amounts of higher totals came as a result of lake-effect snow enhanced by the wind direction following the storm's passage. [3]