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📘 Keep a lake from meaning a blanket

You are standing on a Great Lakes shoreline in late November. Cold air crosses dark water. Write what that lake is doing—before you let the snow start meaning an even blanket over every town.

3
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~15 min
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Adults
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What you’ll learn

  1. A lake can load the airOpen water, heat, vapor; lake ≠ blanket.You are on a November shore before you let a lake mean a blanket.
  2. Fetch draws a corridor, not a quiltFetch, wind, terrain, rain versus snow.Ask which shore is downwind before you trust a county-wide total.
  3. Keep the blanket honestIce, climate caveat; notice lake-as-blanket.Tonight, notice one lake-snow headline that tried to mean a blanket.

Questions this course answers

What does open lake water add to cold air?

NWS: open water transfers heat and vapor; ice strongly limits that flux.

Put a lake-effect chain in order.

Wind direction and fetch locate the corridor; the lake does not snow evenly.

What does extensive lake ice usually do to lake-effect snow?

NWS: ice-covered water does not generate significant lake-effect snow.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • National Weather Service, Gaylord. Lake Effect Snow. https://www.weather.gov/apx/les
  • National Weather Service, Duluth. Lake Effect Snow Resources. https://www.weather.gov/dlh/lakesnow
  • National Weather Service, Grand Rapids. The Importance of Wind Direction in Forecasting Lake Effect Snow. https://www.weather.gov/grr/windAndLakeEffectSnow
  • Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments. Lake-effect Snow in the Great Lakes Region. https://glisa.umich.edu/resources-tools/climate-impacts/lake-effect-snow-in-the-great-lakes-region/
  • National Weather Service, Binghamton. Weather in Action: Upstream Lake Effect Snow Bands. https://www.weather.gov/bgm/WeatherInActionLakeEffectSnow

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