Month: January 2013

Mesoscale vortex development over Lake Ontario on January 23, 2013

by Dan Bikos on January 24th, 2013

An Arctic airmass over the Great Lakes provided for a significant lake-effect snow event off Lake Ontario leading up to January 23, 2013 (maximum snowfall reports 3 feet near the southeast shoreline).  Near the end of this lake-effect snow event, low-level wind speeds decreased as shown in this plot of RTMA surface winds/temperatures along with Continue Reading

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