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 ...

Lake-effect snow relies on a combination of an outbreak of Artic cold air and the comparatively warmer water of the Great Lakes. As the air passes over the lake, it picks up moisture and dumps it on ...

Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the ...

The storm that hit parts of central Ontario in late November and early December was ... Areas off the Great Lakes are used to big snowfall events, earning the title of Ontario’s snowbelt.

One of the worst storms in many years swept across Lake Michigan and the Midwest on Monday, 11 November 1940, leaving a path of destruction in its wake and much ...

After nearly a week of freezing temperatures — below zero on several days — the Great Lakes are seeing significant ice creation, with Lake Erie nearly completely frozen over. Lake Erie was ...

One pattern that does have merit, though, is that most ships have sunk during the gales of November, which occur when storm tracks collide over the Great Lakes, typically between mid-October and ...

Numerous areas along Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are under Winter Storm Watches ... as well. The Great Lakes are no stranger to lake-effect snow. Since the end of November, Erie, Pennsylvania ...