While a larger parent storm system is typically required to produce heavy rain or snow events, lake effect snow is unique. All you need to produce some of the largest snow events on record is cold ...

After a weekend that had the first snowfall for much of Wisconsin, parts of Racine and Kenosha counties along Lake Michigan measured more than a foot of snow Nov. 10. It's a drastic difference from ...

In a way, yes - but not because the snow itself has color. According to IFL Science, when sunlight penetrates a snowpack, the ...

CLEVELAND — In the late 1800s, meteorologists started noticing something very interesting along the Great Lakes in Winter. Cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Erie, PA were getting buried under ...

Snow is expected is expected statewide this weekend across much of Michigan, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula — much of it blamed on lake effect. "Our first ...

Warmer waters are fueling stronger, snowier storms—at least for now. Here’s how scientists think this phenomenon will evolve as the planet gets hotter. Steam is seen rising off a frozen Lake Michigan ...

Ski season is here, but while the eastern half of the U.S. digs out from winter storms, the western U.S. snow season has been off to a very slow start. The snowpack was far below normal across most of ...