How the Great Lakes actually MAKE SNOW
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2021
- Lake effect snow is an unfortunate harsh reality of winter. Don't know what that is? Well today you're in luck.
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How the Great Lakes actually MAKE SNOW
Stoked that you are submitting this to 3b1b. Your videos are super high quality and informative. I always look forward to the new uploads.
Thanks my guy!
We get some pretty fun winter weather in Eastern Idaho for similar reasons. Thanks to this wonderful volcano named Yellowstone, the land in Southern and Eastern Idaho is a giant bowl stretching from Boise all the way to the ID/MT/WY tripoint. Being near the eastern end in Rexburg, Idaho, we tend to get a lot of snow for being in a desert, about 3-5 feet over the course of a year. Of course, I grew up in the South, so I'm having loads of fun trying to drive with all that going on.
My friend who lives in the south couldnt for the life of him comprehend what i meant by lake effect snow and how quickly storms come up. He understands its from the lake, but this may help him get it. I’ve actually wondered what exactly causes all that too.
Been waiting for this one. Happy to live on the north shore, of the great lakes.
This one took a while! It is really nice up there
Military service took me to the Fairbanks area of Alaska in the mid 2000s. I was a bit surprised to find out many of the local folks thought the Great Lakes had meaner winters than Alaska did, but moisture and wind makes a huge difference.
As a Wisconsin farm kid, I had unpleasant memories of chipping out livestock water tanks with a crowbar and thawing water pails in a variety of below zero scenarios. I did wait out my first winter before somewhat agreeing with my Alaskan neighbors.
Fairbanks was very dry, rarely windy, and usually had powdery snow, so even when it was 20 to 40 below, as long as you had your skin covered it was pretty tolerable. (Sustained cold effect on many materials was a different matter...) Of course as soon as there was any kind of breeze, wind chill factor was a whole 'nother level plus whiteout.
Ice fog might make an interesting vignette for one of your explanation videos. So would the Alaskan party trick of throwing a cupful of hot water into the air and it really does simply vanish once the temperature is low enough.
Im so surprised you don’t have more subscribers and views. Your content and quality is great!
Thanks Jack! It requires a lot of work and consistency on my part to get there, but I'll keep working hard
@@weatherboxstudios found you yesterday. Watching lots of videos. Great channel. Keep it up. You are good. You have the ability to explain complex concepts and make them easy to understand. Not many people master that ability.
Hahaha. Michigander here, and you're right. The Great Lakes can be a menace to society.
Growing up in the snow belt of NE Ohio this video brings me joy and makes me miss those storms. Lady time I was home in 2016 we got 5’ of snow in just over a day….same time that Erie, PA broke records with 6+’ in the Same timeframe.
So glad I found this channel. Excellent analysis and presentation.
Great video to watch at this moment as I'm visiting Michigan from the west coast! The second example of wind shear you described actually seems to explain the current pattern situation what with the widespread bands forming on the Western side of the state and the more organized bands forming in on the Buffalo area. Very much enjoying learning from you!
Great video! As people make their way through the 3B1B playlist I'm sure this will get more traction from UA-cam's recommendation algorithm.
Being born and raised in Toledo, thank you for explaining the minor details of this weather phenomena in a way that is both understandable and enlightening.
Lake effect is lovely! Michigan has #2 worst winters in USA
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan 😉 Aloha
Hi Steve! I'm just getting into your videos, and decided to start from the beginning. I loved this video on the unique snow of the Great Lakes. Would you be willing to talk about Flagstaff, AZ and why it gets so much snow? Could be part of a talk about south western snow patterns, but I'd love an explination! Either way, thanks for all of the great content!
4/22/2024
I grew up in Cleveland (1950's and 1960's). What Steve is talking about is very real. I've seen 12 inches of snow fall in less than 12 hours in Cleveland (not a blizzard)
On the south side of Cleveland is what is locally called "the escarpment", a sudden rise of about 100 feet, depending on how far to the east you are. It slowly rises from about 90 miles (?)west of Cleveland, crosses the southern city boundary and the begins to curve slowly back to the lake.
I have seen (due to lake temperature) it being 34 degrees, in town, and raining, while south of town, at the top of the rise, the was 10 inches of snow and snowing hard.
Take Steve's advise, don't go to Cleveland in the winter, if you don't like weather like he and I have described. I moved to Georgia in 1980, I don't miss Cleveland's winter a bit. ;-)
I am a lake effect snow MASTER here in northern MI
I love a good lake-effect blizzard.
I was not expecting to see Brad Panovich lmao, my favorite meteorologist and my favorite weather youtuber combined!
“This is your lake, this is your fault” lol
I live in Rochester and find it fascinating how Rochester rarely gets major lake effect snow events yet still manages to total ~100" per year. I guess it's because bands moving off the lake aren't maximized by Ontario's shape, yet winds from the NW are so common, meaning it's always snowing... just not much at a given time.
Keep up the content period from Fergus Ontario we get lots of lake effect snow here
Aww I live in Florida and I’ve never seen snow, not even a flake LOL. I would love to see it sometime, but definitely not live in the cold and snow for half the year. A few frosty mornings and cool rainy days is enough winter for me 🤣
I grew up on the eastern side of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada and the climate there is, in general, relatively mild and rainy during the winter. However, we occasionally see "sea effect snow" which is similar to the phenomenon that you're describing. Sea effect snow happens when arctic air flows out of the BC interior and flows across the warm waters of the Salish Sea. The arctic air is forced to rise when it encounters the shore of the island and then drops its moisture as snow. Some of the largest snowfalls (1 foot +) that I saw growing up in Ladysmith have resulted from this type of scenario.
@TheDerpy Kitty That's right.
Hey...I currently live in Ohio. 😄 I really love your channel! Thanks for continually appeasing the weather-geeks such as myself. 🌪
Great video!
I grew up in Mentor (NE Cle) but moved to just south of North Olmsted (SW Cle) and we get so much less snow here. Could be a fluke the last 5 years but I remember way more snow being a few miles from Lake Erie on 306 and Rt. 2. Same goes for thunderstorms.
As someone who grew up on the north coast of ohio, this definitely hit's close to home! However, I'm from the Sandusky area, so there have been plenty of times when storms of all kinds skipped just to the north of us.
I live on the Lake Effect side of Lake Michigan, which usually means 3-6" of lake effect snow after a system comes through. Very helpful when you want a snow day; less helpful when you have to drive somewhere and the plows aren't out. I will say, I do prefer the lake effect to the bone-freezing cold experienced on the other side in Wisconsin.
Go Blue!
We at lake effect rain too but nobody ever cares about that also the lake can enhance severe weather this check out a tornado intensity map there is always more tornadoes up by the lake
Yeah there's some research about lake breezes and tornadoes... I will look into that
What about Lake Michigan and the Lakeshore communities in Michigan? They seem ti get hit all the tine, with Grand Rapids getting some snow but a lot of rain year around.
Great video to pass on to my neighbors here in Louisville when I fail to explain lake effect when I lived in Lorain for 30 years. I though I knew it all, but Weatherbox knows better. BTW, It's June '22 now,, so how did the contest turn out?
I grew up in Fredonia New York. So I am very well acquainted with lake affect snow. Here’s an oddity for you, Willsboro NY, sitting in the lee of the high peaks is probably the driest town in New York. Just far enough north we don’t get clipped by nor’easters nor do we get much snow from storms running to the north. We also get minimal thunderstorms. We get the weather, yes, just not as much as people 20 miles north or south of us.
Just looked at Google Maps and I understand why! Drove through this area last month and was blown away by the beauty. Can't wait to go back
This was so good
Thank you uncle Ryan
So THIS is the episode where the system on the wall comes from!
my grandparents lived in loraine for nearly 30 years and would always tell me how terrible the weather was.
So. Have you been to coast guard festival?
Of all the beaches you could have picked, you started filming on Euclid Beach?
Mr. Steve Weatherbox, is that a clarinet at 1:45
How does this video only have 2.5k views??
Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen!
Tug Hill
Steve why are you talking about lake effect snow?
Oh good thing that got answered!
gotta cover all the bases!
I want to meet you one day. I live in fremont ohio so I'm about a half an hour from Sandusky and about an hour or so from Cleveland
Bummer about those boots, tho.
it's cuyahoga county metroparks time
lets goooo
I'm watching this after Buffalo 2022 happened. Is this only possible on the Great Lakes or can it happen to other, smaller lakes?
Yes! It has happened to Lake Lanier in Georgia during a very strong trough over the eastern US. Steam from power plant coolong towers can also cause localized snow downwind
@@weatherboxstudios Thanks. I work on Big Green Lake in Wisconsin and I get to experience interesting weather throughout the year. Never lake-effect snow though. Btw, I'm really enjoying your videos. My girlfriend is a meteorologist and works for the NWS in Michigan. Lol, she gave me all of her college books so I could understand things better. Haha, right. Two words for ya. Weather math.
Very well done! I understand better what my Midwest friends were talking about. Woild climate change make lake effect dnow worse, since the lakes would be frozen over less of the year?
Read this sentence, then read your username. Not disappointed.
@@jessetaulbee8825 There are reasons I chose that name. Autocorrect isn’t one of them. 😂
im from nor then ON few years ago it reached -54C i really dont believe most people understand what actual cold is
The clip at 9:50 made me miss the snow lol
You totally manifested that graupel in the valley with this comment
I have visited Duluth, MN and Chicago, IL in winter and both are beautiful. Its just snow. Its not gonna steal your identity and bankrupt your family 😂
i don't understand why people complain about living in ohio i mean there are at least as many above-ground pools as there are people, and who doesn't like swimming
Lake Erie can be a total asshole sometimes
I agree
You live in Ohio wtf is wrong with you move up to Michigan like a human