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I know it is all over the national news but they really have not focused on the many businesses that have been literally destroyed by the 80 plus inches of snow we got recently. I can only imagine the thousands of dollars of tools and jobs that will take years to rebuild. Within five miles from my home there has been two auto repair places collapsed and a collision shop in the last three days, not to mention several retail shops and schools.
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Don’t forget the flat rate time for fixing that building collapse is the same there as it is in locations where winter, salt, rust, and cold don’t exist.
What state is that? It weird in a way New York has already gotten like 90% of the total snowfall they get a season. Even St. Paul/Minniapilos MN and Dulth MN got dumped on. Strangly here in Rochester MN all we got was MAYBE 5 inches of snow and we got snow here a week or more before this big storm hit. Makes me wonder why New York got so much more than Minnesota when they are both in the same places geographically NY is just more towards the east cost or is it west cost? im Geographically backwards :lol:.
It’s Buffalo, New York and the surrounding areas. They got lake effect snow from both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario at the same time that came together with just the right weather characteristics to make some historically serious snow. Its normal to see huge variations in snow from the same storm based on proximity to Lake Ontario and I’m sure other lakes as well.
That makes sense. But you would think that MN would get it. NY has Lake Erie and Lake Ontario but MN has over 15,000 lakes 😆
In this case, it is the size (mass, really) of the lake that matters as opposed to the number of lakes. Lake Effect snow happens when cold wind blows across a long expanse of water that has held warmer temperature than the cold wind. The wind warms and pick up huge amounts of moisture across many miles of water, then it cools suddenly after it starts blowing over the colder solid ground. When the air cools it can no longer suspend the moisture and it is precipitated out rapidly, causing massive rates of snowfall downwind from the lake.
The same effect can happen with oceans and seas, but the great lakes are a unique inland occurrence of this because of it being rare for lakes of their size to exist, especially in climates that can get snow.
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