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6 feet of snow in Buffalo: What causes lake-effect storms like this?

A woman shovels snow off her car, not visible under the piles

Dr. Michael Rawlins, Associate Director of the Climate Systems Research Center, writes about the causes of Lake Effect snowstorms in a recent piece in The Conversation...