[FreeReign]

None of that matters, the weight of snow is fairly consistent, lake affect just means the snow developed by cold air passing over a lake as opposed to moving in a storm over land.

Lake effect snow is dry. Snow-to-water ratios are anywhere from from 20 to 1 to as much as 50 to 1.

Non lake effect snows tend to have snow-to-water rations of around 10 to 1.

Dry snow weighs less than wet snow.

As I said, Storm Team 4 is exaggerating the weight problem. Lake effect snow is not your "average" snow.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Dry snow weighs less than wet snow.

Anyone who's skied in fluffy powder snow understands the difference.

We got about 5" of snow last night. Fluffy powder. I was able to use my leaf blower to clean off my sidewalk and driveway. Took about 15 minutes.

[exnavy]

Nope.