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lake effect
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lake effect [′lāk i‚fekt]
(meteorology)
Generally, the effect of any lake in modifying the weather about its shore and for some distance downwind; in the United States, this term is applied specifically to the region about the Great Lakes.


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MICHIGAN, Extreme Southwest MIZ077 Lake-Effect Snow Unseasonably cold air settled over the Great Lakes with lake temperatures still in the lower 40s.
The distress signal prompted a search involving 13 forest rangers, who were initially unable to reach Skalak due to lake-effect snows, Litwhiler said.
We are trying to make a zero energy building here in the lake-effect snow belt
 
 
 
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