What Is Lake-Effect Snow? (Hint: It Involves a Lake) | TIME - 0 views
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John Evans on 20 Nov 14"You don't need a meteorologist to tell you what lake-effect snow is: it's snow that's, um, caused by a lake, right? As it turns out, things are a teensy bit more complicated than that, and if you live in one of the states bordering the Great Lakes that are forever getting clobbered by the stuff - or even if you just marvel at the footage of the latest white-out to hit those luckless places - it can help to know what's actually going on."