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Originally Posted by Cambium
Definitely. More warm water/More rising air.
Utah has Lake effect snows from Great Salt Lake, but obviously not as potent as the Great Lakes. What the graph doesn't show is how wind "direction" plays a role.. Winds going across the longer portion of the lake will have more juice in the rising air process.
The other thing is sometimes the mechanisms just shut off even with winds going across a lake. So not sure about yours there but maybe there's something just not triggering it or maybe they are jst too cold. If there's ice on there, forget it.
I also think the size of the lake has influence being that it would take longer to cool off therefore keeping warmer waters around more for the arctic air to dive in Oct/Nov?
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That makes sense. I agree with your last point too. My local lake isn't as large as any of the great lakes and definitely cools down much quicker. The only chance of seeing lake effect snow here is having sub zero temperatures at the end of September/ start of October after a very hot summer. That's very unlikely
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