This is snow that forms when a cold air mass passes over a relatively warm lake. The temperature contrast causes the air to pick up moisture and heat from the lake, which then rises, condenses ...

(AP) — When towns along the Great Lakes get buried in drifts of blowing snow, like several have within the past week, weather experts start talking about the “lake effect.” Lake-effect ...

He urged people to stay off the roads. An intense lake effect is forecast to bring bands of snow from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario into the Buffalo, New York, region through the rest of the weekend ...