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[lupinesque]

David wrote:

> What is 'lake effect' snow?

When one lives downwind (a better term might be downweather) of 
a major lake, namely the Great Lakes, one tends to get loads of 
snow dumped on one because the cold air comes down from Canada, 
picks up a lot of moisture over the large body of water, and 
then dumps it shortly thereafter, e.g. on Cleveland, Buffalo, 
Rochester . . . Buffalo got an incredible 72 inches in 5 days 
recently.

It isn't necessarily the wet and heavy kind of snow--there's just a 
lot of it.

Amy
who, fortunately for her, loves snow