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Get the Crater Lake National Park, OR local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Although snow covers Crater Lake National Park for eight months of the year (average annual snowfall is 463 inches (1,180 cm)), the lake rarely freezes over due, in part, to a relatively mild onshore flow from the Pacific Ocean. The last recorded year in which the lake froze over was in 1949, a very long, cold winter.
Several inches of snow will batter New York into Saturday morning including near Albany, where 6-12 inches of snow are likely and a winter storm warning remains in effect until 1 a.m.
Crater Lake Institute Director and limnologist Owen Hoffman states that "Crater Lake is the deepest, when compared on the basis of average depth among lakes whose basins are entirely above sea level. The average depths of Lakes Baikal and Tanganyika are deeper than Crater Lake; however, both have basins that extend below sea level." [20] [22]
The first significant lake-effect snow event is well underway across the Great Lakes and interior Northeast, and AccuWeather meteorologists continue to warn of additional heavy snow remaining in ...
A multi-day lake effect snow event off Lake Erie is ongoing, making travel "very difficult" throughout the Great Lakes region as a total of 3-12 inches of new snow was produced near Cleveland ...
Lake levels rose while the Wizard Island landform inside the crater was forming. Water interacted with lava flows to form pillow lava. [17] Because of climate change patterns over time, Crater Lake's surface level has changed, dropping as much as 40 feet (12 m) for example at the beginning of the 20th century. [10]
The village of Barnes Corner, New York, 80 miles north of Syracuse on Lake Ontario, had reported 65.5 inches of snow as of Monday morning, while Fort Drum to the north had 63 inches.