We have a messy morning drive this morning for Western New York,” NWS meteorologist John Hitchcock tells WBEN. After a light ...

The little village of Copenhagen in Upstate New York has done it again: It’s the snowiest populated place in the United States this year. Copenhagen – in the town of Denmark, no less – sits in western ...

Erie, Pennsylvania, set a single-day snowfall record of ... New York often experiences greater lake-effect snow amounts due to the longer “fetch” over the Great Lakes. “Fetch” refers to the distance ...

Scanlon said on X, as a lake-effect snow band unleashed on the Buffalo metro and northern Erie County between about 10:30 and 1 p.m. "I urge all residents to stay indoors if possible and follow ...

A January 2025 cold wave plunged Chicago into subzero temperatures, initially without snow. By late January, snowfall ...

Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the current ice concentration look like and ...

Seasonal snowfall is now above average for most of West Michigan and ice coverage has increased on the Great Lakes due to ...

The reason why Central New York kept getting creamed by lake effect snow was because, for the first time in years, the region ...

Ice growth on the Great Lakes requires long spells of subfreezing temperatures like we’ve seen of late. The shallower lakes—Erie and Huron—are the first to build significant surface ice, with the ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- With the recent arctic weather here in the Mohawk Valley, some Great Lakes are finally beginning to freeze. This event typically happens in most winters, but sometimes, if average ...

The worst of the cold is over but overall, the temperatures will remain below average. In fact, much of the month has been ...

The arctic air blast that brought below zero temperatures to the Valley has had a massive impact on the ice coverage on Lake Erie.