lake effect

noun

Meteorology.

1. the phenomena created in the surrounding area by weather passing over a large lake, especially any of the Great Lakes of the U.S.

Example Sentences

The NWS has forecast "heavy" lake effect snow, advising residents to avoid travel if possible.

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In 2022, a lake effect storm led to Buffalo’s home game against Cleveland being moved to Detroit in November.

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Department spokesperson Matt Bruning said clean-up crews will likely work 12 hour shifts even after the National Weather Service’s lake effect snow warning is dropped to deal with any issues caused by snow drifts resulting from high winds.

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But it remains a lifeblood for Utah’s economy, sustaining a $1.5 billion-a-year mining industry that extracts minerals including magnesium and table salt, an $80 million brine shrimp industry for fish feed and a $1.4 billlion ski industry that markets itself with the fluffy “lake effect” snow that the geography supplies.

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If the lake continues to shrink, it could risk being an ecological, economic and public health disaster; as more toxic dust is exposed on the shoreline, it will likely endanger native species, dirty the air in surrounding communities and compromising the “lake effect” snow that the state’s ski industry relies on.

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