Lake-effect occurring when the air at is much colder than the water surface can produce thundersnow, snow showers accompanied by lightning and thunder ( caused by larger amounts of energy available from the increased instability ).

Lake-effect precipitation coming off Lake Erie, as seen by NEXRAD radar, Lake Storm " Aphid " | October 12 – 13, 2006

Lake-effect snowfall can be locally heavy.

Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the leeward shores.

Lake-effect blizzard is an unofficial term used to describe blizzard-like conditions resulting from lake-effect snow.

Lake-effect snow is produced as cold winds blow clouds over warm waters.

Lake-effect snow is common, and the town gets a substantial amount of it in the late fall and early winter.

Lake-effect snowfall can be locally heavy.

This makes the Township of Middlesex Centre very desirable for farming due to frequent precipitation, while it also experiences higher than normal snowfall from Lake-effect snow in the winter creating desirable spring planting conditions ( yet less desirable snow removal issues for its residents.

Lake-effect snow squalls can significantly reduce visibilities with little notice.

Lake-effect snow squalls can significantly reduce visibilities with little notice.

Lake-effect snow squalls can significantly reduce visibilities with little notice.

Lake-effect snow is produced in the winter in the shape of one or more elongated bands when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the lee shores.

In the cases of Lake-effect snow and polar lows, the convective systems form over warm water bodies when cold air sweeps over their surface and leads to an increase in moisture and significant vertical motion.

The soot from the Kuwaiti fires was found in the snows of the Himalayas and in rainfall over the southern members of the Community of Independent States, Iran, Oman, and Turkey.

The area is in the southern end of the Sierra Nevada range and the lake itself is located in low mountains at an elevation of approximately 2, 500 feet ( 760 m ) where summer temperatures reach over 100 degrees (° F ) but low enough to avoid winter snows on the surrounding ridges.

The southern end of the space enclosed between these three ridges is an elevated plateau of great extent, where the snows accumulate and feed the Corbassière Glacier which descends thence for about ten kilometers to the north.

Western New York is known for its lake effect snows, which can result in highly localized, sometimes intense and even historic snow events.

It may also be closed, at times, because of weather conditions ( it occasionally snows even in August ).

Binghamton receives significant snows at times during the year from Nor ' easter storms as well.

: Whether the sun shines, whether it rains, storms or snows, By day and night, evening or morn, How homely you still sound, The Upper Harz language, O Andreasberg how beautiful you are.

Despite its heavy winter snows, the pass is kept open all year, except during and just after winter storms.

Like everywhere else on the Black Sea coast it rains ( and often snows in winter ) and is very humid throughout the year, with a lack of extreme temperatures both in summer and winter.

Wellington boots, almost always simply called rain boots, rubber boots, billy boots, or gum-boots, are popular in Canada and the northern United States, particularly in springtime when melting snows leave wet and muddy ground.

A more typical result of surface dew points above are extreme precipitable water readings as well as other indices used to forecast severe thunderstorms and flooding such as Convective available potential energy as was illustrated in early June 2008 when thunderstorms originating in Minnesota and Iowa mushroomed when hitting the area of extreme dew points in South-Central and South-East Wisconsin from and inaugurated the third wave of upper Middle West flooding ( the first was snowmelt from the record-breaking winter snows and the third was the widespread rains in excess of and up to during early August 1997 ) by producing extremely heavy rain over the region, with many areas receiving and a few areas of in 3 to 6 hours ' time.

By mid-May the first snows fall, and winter lasts until early September, bringing stormy weather with mixed precipitation ( snow, rain, sleet ), occasional snowstorms and highs between, lows between.

After rain, and early in the season when fed by the melting snows, the Staubbach Falls is a very striking object.

Argyroupoli has a mild climate, affected by the sea and the mountain. It rarelly snows, but rain is common. During summer, high temperatures are recorded.

In the winter, frosts are frequent and snows heavy ; in fact, snow covers the highest peaks for much of the year.

In the winter, however, Otaru is exceptionally snowy, receiving as much as of snow from November to March, when it snows almost constantly and sunshine is extremely low.

A comparison of the original field notes, transcript notes, plats and report of the examiner, shows that at the season of the year ( from December 1, 1884 to January 3, 1885 ) when the deputy pretends to have made the surveys, the deep snows made the survey at that time impossible ; that in the original notes ( which are now in this office ) much is omitted that is found in the transcripts and data supplied from memory, or rather made up ; that disregarding clerical errors the transcripts are not in any sense copies of the original notes ; that triangulations omitted in originals are audaciously given in detail in the transcripts, just as if they had really been made in the field, that the high speed, more than 6 miles per day, at which it is pretended the work was executed, surpasses belief when we take into consideration the nature of the ground, and bear in mind that the surveying was done during the shortest days of the year ; that the deputy gives descriptions of erroneous bearing trees where no such trees, either as regards size or species, are to be found ; that in the face of all the embarrassing conditions, big canyons, high and steep mountains, deep snow, impenetrable chaparral, precipices impossible to ascend or descend, the deputy with his two parties of four men each, frequently with the impassable San Joaquin river between them, pretends to have subdivided T8SR24E at the rate of more than 6 miles per day, and then accomplishes the feat of recording all this work in one field book.

They became notable after the Spirit Lake Massacre of 1857, when a renegade band of Sioux attacked the frontier settlements, in part for food, because they were suffering starvation during a severe winter with heavy snows.

The twin brigs Lawrence and Niagara, American warships of the Battle of Lake Erie, were both snows.

Lake effect snows are usually most active between November and February and typically end once the lake freezes over.

Cyclonic flow and cold air around the backside of this system led to significant Lake effect snows for areas downwind of the Great Lakes.

Due to its elevation, and the heavy snow snowpack of the Pacific Northwest, Blanca Lake is typically only easily accessible from July until the snows of October or November.

This irrigation is aided by a high water table and by melting snows from the high peaks of the Zagros Mountains and from the Armenian cordillera, the source of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, that give the region its name.

The Eucumbene River from the Snowy Mountains Highway at Kiandra, in the snows of 1990.

Kitamaat is a Tsimshian name, applied by European explorers who asked their Tsimshian guides for the name of the place ; it means " people of the snows " or " place of the snows ".

The city enjoys a continental climate that incorporates some characteristics of a mountainous climate because of the nearby Massif Central and Alps. Heavy snows in the Massif Central often make roads impassable, but Vichy is low enough at about above sea level that the climate is more continental.

Snowfalls in March or April are often known as " onion snows " because they fall on freshly planted onions.

Heavy snows or rains, on saturated or frozen soil, have caused a number of catastophic floods, which often are made worse by the fact that snowmelt starts in the warmer south, and waters flowing northward are often dammed or slowed by ice.

Although it snows in this region, the snow in this part of the United States melts rapidly, often before nightfall.

Unlike the lower elevations in the surrounding regions, heavy snows often fall from December to March, with accumulating in the Great Blizzard of 1993.

As the polar snows melted the adjacent seas appeared to overflow and spread out as far as the tropics, and were often seen to assume a distinctly green colour.

There are often snows before and after that period, as well.

Trains were often stranded for several days during heavy winter snows.

In Toronto, the Scarborough RT became a subject of ridicule, often closing in heavy snows.

It has gained a reputation for its harsh weather-it often snows and icing was a problem when the hydro plants were still in use.