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Living at the west end of Lake Ontario…sometimes has it’s disadvantages in the winter when there’s an east wind off the relatively mild lake…as this scene shows….A winter storm is passing to the south but the counterclockwise motion of the low…ended up a thick lake effect blast on this particular afternoon a few seasons ago..…shown at Snake Interlocking, Burlington ON. A westbound is making a lift at Aldershot while a CN hi-rail vehicle keeps an eye on the switches.

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Who gets the snow depends on the wind direction. Since most cold-winds-across-the-warm-water in the Great Lakes region blow out of the north/northwest, Buffalo itself actually doesn't get buried all that often, but its southern suburbs do. When a cold wind comes up out of the southwest, though, watch out. That wind would miss the "Snow Belt" east of Cleveland toward Erie, but hammers metro Buffalo.

I would think a wind would have to be out of the south if not southeast for the area around Bay View Junction to get a lot of lake-effect snow.

With the prevailing westerly winds, sometimes lake effect snow from Lake Huron can actually reach this area. These Bayview pics are from February of 2011.

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I think there's trains there in all that snow!

Tis' the season!

Brian H.

TheCurator Wrote:
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> With the prevailing westerly winds, sometimes lake
> effect snow from Lake Huron can actually reach
> this area. These Bayview pics are from February of
> 2011.

Same phenomenon in NW Ohio. While Toledo is at the west end of Lake Erie, what lake-effect snow we get is mostly from Lake Michigan.