Lake Effect Snow — Short Answer: What are the areas most favorable to receive snowfall, downwind of the lakes known as?

Lake Effect Snow — Short Answer: What is a heavy shower of snow that greatly reduces visibility?

Lake Effect Snow — Short Answer: What is a layer of relatively warm air and/or dry aloft which inhibits cloud growth?

Lake Effect Snow — Short Answer: What is snow that results from cold air moving across warmer lakes?

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: The longer the fetch, the higher the snowfall amounts.

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: A frozen lake is favorable for lake effect snow to occur.

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: Low wind shear is favorable for lake effect snow to occur.

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: Lake effect snow, in general, is very localized.

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: A high capping inversion is unfavorable for lake effect snow.

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: Lancaster, NY is in the snowbelt of western NY.

Lake Effect Snow — True or False: An upstream moisture connection is favorable for lake effect snow.

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — Short Answer: What are light snow showers which fall intermittently?

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — Short Answer: What is rain that falls through a shallow layer of cold air near the surface and freezes on the surface?

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — Short Answer: What is mainly solid precipitation; ice pellets?

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — Short Answer: What is solid precipitation made of ice crystals in complex hexagonal form?

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — True or False: Winter storms can continue into early spring.

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — True or False: In the winter, mT and cT air masses form over Canada.

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — True or False: Cyclones tend to develop/strengthen over warm oceans.

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — True or False: Winter storms bring the potential for both heavy winter precipitation along with severe weather.

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — True or False: Higher elevations are more likely to have rain in the winter.

Winter Storms and Winter Precipitation — True or False: In winter storm development, the bigger the contrast in temperatures, pressure and air density the stronger the winds and heavier the precipitation.

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — Short Answer: What is a type of winter storm that produces near whiteout or whiteout conditions lasting several hours, low visibilities and dangerous wind chills?

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — Short Answer: What is a winter storm that forms or develops east of the Rockies, and produces snow and gusty winds, and brings a reinforcing shot of cold air in its wake?

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — Short Answer: What is a storm which moves up along the East coast of the U.S. and produces a wide variety of precipitation. Typically occurs in the winter?

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — Short Answer: An ice storm is caused by what?

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — True or False: A shallow layer of cold/arctic air at the surface (Cp or cA), and warmer air aloft, are key ingredients to the formation of an ice storm.

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — True or False: Blizzard conditions and severe weather are possible with a nor’easter.

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — True or False: A blizzard occurs every year in Buffalo, NY.

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — True or False: During an ice storm, ice falls from the sky.

Blizzards, Nor’easters, Ice Storms, Oh My! — True or False: An eye may develop in a nor’easter.

Winter Weather Health and Safety — Short Answer: What is how wind and cold feel on exposed skin?

Winter Weather Health and Safety — Short Answer: What is damage to body tissue caused by extreme cold?

Winter Weather Health and Safety — Short Answer: What is the condition known as when your body temperature drops below 95°F?

Winter Weather Health and Safety — True or False: If someone is experiencing hypothermia, be sure to give them a hot beverage.