A very warm December could end up leading to the root cause of some massive snowstorms across parts of New York.

The water temperature of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario remains well above average and that could end up leading to potentially devastating lake effect snow storms.


This is what we saw in November of 2022 when the lake temperatures in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario were above normal and a cold front moved in from the West.

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So with some very cold air set to move across the lakes next week, the chance of lake-effect snow coming is very high.  

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