Climate scientists and meteorologists say climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is helping create conditions that can strengthen the storms — like the one that that hit parts of ...

Parts of the Great Lakes that were already inundated with snow ... parts of southwest and upstate New York and Ontario, Canada. In Michigan, heavy lake-effect snow in northern parts of the state ...

Ice growth on the Great Lakes requires long spells of subfreezing temperatures like we’ve seen of late. The shallower lakes—Erie and Huron—are the first to build significant surface ice, with the ...