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lake effect

American  

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.


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Ski resorts worry about a future without lake effect snow.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2022

About six million people from Michigan to New York are under alerts for so-called lake effect snow.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2022

As that cold air pours in over the Great Lakes, lake effect snow will pile up for parts of Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania.

From Fox News • Jan. 10, 2022

“Many lake effect snow belts are running snowfall departures from normal that will be impossible to make up,” he wrote via email.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2021

Cory Arcangel’s portrait of Miley Cyrus on a flat-screen TV uses obsolete technology to create a rippling lake effect that could induce wistfulness — and a touch of seasickness.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019