lake-effect

It apparently snowed quite heavily west of here.
Not here — the ground is still bare (lawn-mowing season ain’t over yet, but nearly is) — but Buffalo and counties west of here; six inches of heavy, wet snow.
It was a lake-effect event. Cold air flows over the still-warm lakes, causing evaporation that forms into clouds that move inland and dump.
If it’s warm enough it dumps as rain; cold enough and it’s snow.
Cold air was moving over Lake Erie, forming clouds that dumped east of Lake Erie.
Sometimes Lake Erie lake-effect makes it all the way to West Bloomfield, but not this time.
If the cold wind is out of the north, lake-effect can be off Lake Ontario.
The shore of Lake Ontario always gets slammed, as does Tug Hill Plateau, east of Lake Ontario.
Quite a bit of the snow here is lake-effect, but we are in sweet spot that doesn’t get much from either lake.
Occasionally there is synoptic snow, from a nor’easter or a storm; but lots is lake-effect.
Our bedroom radio prompted an outburst.
I had already turned off the kitchen-radio because the classical-music radio-station we listen to was starting one of their occasional fund-drives; which we can’t stand.
(“Just one more pledge and we get a matching grant from the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation that will put us over $30,000; today’s 9 a.m. goal. You can do it — rah-rah-rah! Call our volunteers at 454-6300; they’re eating donuts. Get a free ceremonial coffee-mug as a thank-you gift” — clank-clank.)
Morning-man was rattling off all the school-closings.
“Are they kidding?” Linda asked. “They didn’t close school for six inches of snow back in our day!”
Right; we had to walk to school barefoot in snow eight inches deep, and it was uphill both comin’ and goin’.
These kids today got it way too easy.