Hey Ray! What Causes Lake Effect Snow To Be Created

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — We have talked about how each snowfall is different. How snow is created is different, too.
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There are bigger sized weather systems that impact a large area. We call those synoptic systems. Then there are small-scale weather systems that impact localized areas.
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A type of mesoscale weather is our topic today: Lake effect snow. It is probably the most known type of small-scale weather in our regio