Living by the Lake Means Bad Weather? (Canadian: house, to move)

[disneygogetter]

My mom has always talked about wanting to move out to Texas and live in the country but she's a bit unsure on getting a house near a lake because she says come the stormy season the house would get wrecked by the storms, tornado, etc. So for you Texas folk who live by a lake or know of some folk who live by a lake is this true?

[Trainwreck20]

Not sure why a lake would attract any kind of more damaging weather than another. All Texas lakes (with the exception of one beaver lake) are man-made, so there is no special geography feature that would indicate that there would be more severe weather. The lakes are all small enough that they do not significantly impact the weather by themselves - no Lake Superior or Lake Michigans here. I suppose if you are right on a lake, then there would be one side of your house that is exposed to the wind/rain w/o any natural wind break, but that is about it.

[ChristieP]

Huh?

In all of my life, I have never heard that argument before...

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by disneygogetter

My mom has always talked about wanting to move out to Texas and live in the country but she's a bit unsure on getting a house near a lake because she says come the stormy season the house would get wrecked by the storms, tornado, etc. So for you Texas folk who live by a lake or know of some folk who live by a lake is this true?

Thanks for my morning lolz.

To answer your question: NO, it's not true.

[Willsson]

I could only imagine that living on the lake might be a problem if one were on the down wind side of a Canadian cold front blowing cold air off the water, creating even more chill.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by Willsson

I could only imagine that living on the lake might be a problem if one were on the down wind side of a Canadian cold front blowing cold air off the water, creating even more chill.

Ah, a natural swamp cooler

[hoffdano]

A lake is not the same as an ocean. Maybe the Great Lakes are large enough to cause their own climate. I have lived on Lake Travis since 1998 and lived in the area for ten years before that.

I notice only a few things climate related:

- the lake holds a bit of warmth in the winter so our temperatures at the house are always a few degrees warmer than people nearby but not on the lake
- I think the wind is slightly higher than normal when it is blowing from certain directions - only because the wind travels over water uninterrupted.

[hellpaso]

I lived on a lake & the only bad thing we had more of were snakes.

[disneygogetter]

Oh well thanks for the comments maybe I can convince my mom to move near a house by a lake there were a handful that looked nice.

[War Beagle]

If you are talking about a lake the size of one of the Great Lakes, then yes, it could be an issue. There aren't any Texan lakes near large enough to have weather impacts though.