[Bitwhacker]

What is 'Lake Effect Snow'??? Is that a midwest thing??? Just heard it on Fox & Friends...

[MozartLover]

Cold air moving across warmer water = lake effect snow. In some areas, such as Michigan's upper peninsula, it can be quite significant.......it's not unusual for them to have a couple of feet at a time, sometimes more. We get it now and then. It tends to be large flakes falling steadily, with little or no wind involved; just a nice, steady, heavy snow. It reminds me of "snow globe" snow.

[lepton]

What is 'Lake Effect Snow'???

"Lake effect" snow/rain/fog is a weather phenomenon based on the precipitation effects of an air mass that has locally picked up water from the lake and shedding that water when the mass reaches land. It's why the first 3-10 miles (first couple of major hills usually do it) to the south or east of each of the Great Lakes might commonly have rain-storms, or snow when no real front is going through.

[Utah Girl]

We get lake effect snow here in Utah also, from the Great Salt Lake. I don't quite understand it, but apparently the water in the lake goes into the atmosphere and cause even more snow to fall when a snowstorm hits. I know the Chairman will have a much better, more technical explanation than me. :)