Lake Effect Snow

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Lake Effect Snow

• Burim Trdevaj
• Richie Eldh

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Severe Weather

• Snow storms are considered severe weather
• cause power loss
• slippery roads
• cause trees to fall down which puts anything in
  that area in danger.

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Before

• High moisture warm air from lake rises
• Mixes with high pressure high density cold air
  from the cold front
• The water vapor from the warm air freezes and
  causes the snow

• After

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Where They Occur

• They occur over bodies of water
• More likely if immediately east of cold front
• 4-6 feet possible if air is light enough to move
  snow on shore but not strong enough to move the
  developing system
• Mostly found east or southeast of the Great Lakes

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Air Pressure

• Not associated with advancing cells of low
  pressure
• Associated with dense high pressure arctic cold
  fronts
• Higher the temperature, lower the pressure and
  vise versa

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Density

• If theres heavy snow then in the snowstorm that
  means there will be high density and high
  pressure
• Warmer air is low density so that is why it rises
  from the lake and mixes with the cold front

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Results of Lake Effect Snow Storms
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MARBLE QUESTION!!!!!!!!

• How would the amount of snow be effected by the
  differences in temperature between the cold front
  and the warm air?

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Answer

• The bigger the difference is between the
  temperatures of the cold front and the warm air
  the more snow there will be.

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The End
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