PPT-Forecasting Lake Effect Snow Storms

By Jake Mulholland and Michael Vuotto LakeEffect Season Begins around November Ends around March Ingredients for LakeEffect Cold arctic air flowing over relatively warm lake surfaces Low And MidLevel Moisture. Mike Dutter. NOAA/NWS Marquette, MI. Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop. Chicago, IL. 14 March 2012. Photo by Megan Babich. Purpose. Lake Effect Snow significantly contributes to the annual snowfall across Upper Michigan. . Established in 1902 . CRATER LAKE STATISTICS. LOCATED IN SOUTHERN OREGON / 60 MILES ABOVE CALIFORNIA BORDER. FORMATION BY VOLCANIC IMPLOSION . AVERAGE ANNUAL SNOWFALL: 45 FEET . John D McMillen. John D McMillen. Lake Bonneville Effect Snow . 27 Oct 2010 Event. Trevor Alcott found that the simulation and by extension, the GSLE are sensitive to the terrain around the lake. Downstream terrain is a strong positive impact on production of SWE. Kristen Kernan. Winter Ecology- Spring 2012. Relevant Terminology. Productivity- Amount of photosynthesis . occurring due to phytoplankton. Limnetic Zone- Open surface water in a lake, well-lit, and can contain many aquatic organisms. Murphy . . . . Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Department. State University of New York at . Oneonta . Photo . of . snow crystals collected by Univ. of Utah during . . . the . Ontario . Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) project. Hali. . Castleman. , Chris . Kasprak. , VJ . Vesnaver. , John Kerr. October 3-4 1987. Record setting snowfall in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Western New York. The greatest snow total occurred in central Pennsylvania where 29.8 inches fell at Lock Haven. James . C. lawson. WHAT ARE THEY?. Blizzards. The National Weather Service defines Blizzards as severe snowstorms accompanied by strong sustained winds of 35 mph or greater, with visibility reduced to 400 yards or less due to drifting snow. . ARkStorms. & the Sierra Nevada. Mike Dettinger, US Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dale Cox, US Geological Survey, . Sacramento. NOAA’s . California-Nevada . Applications Program. National Weather. Satellite . Atmospheric circulation. Radar. Temperature/Wind Profile. http://www.atmos.illinois.edu/weather/tree/viewer.pl?launch/sfcslp. 2. Module 3: Winter & Spring Storms. Goals. Understand:. Mesoscale. Processes Associated with a Lake-Effect . Snowband. Over Buffalo, NY During 18-19 November 2014.. Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. University at Albany-SUNY. ATM 509: Atmospheric Precipitation Processes. Investigating . physics sensitivity, . multi. -scale predictability, . and . model performance. UAlbany:. Massey Bartolini,. Justin Minder (lead faculty),. Ryan Torn,. Dan Keyser. NWS Focal Points:. David . Grant E. Gunn. 1. , Claude R. . Duguay. 2. , Don Atwood. 3. 1. Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, 673 Auditorium Road, East Lansing, Michigan, 48825, United States. Mrs. Wharton’s Science Class. Thunderstorms. Storm. - a violent disturbance in the atmosphere.. Thunderstorm-. a small storm accompanied by lightning and thunder. . Thunderstorms form from large cumulonimbus clouds , or thunderheads.. How Is Snow Formed?. Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition, which is when water vapor changes directly to ice without first becoming a liquid.. High in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 32 degrees Fahrenheit and then falls to the ground..