Watch CBS News Lake Effect Snow Winter's Last Gasp The batches of snow showers are very spotty and light so this will keep accumulations down.

Where does lake-effect snow normally occur? According to the weather service, lake effect snow is typically common across the Great Lakes region during the late fall and winter.

Lake-effect snow develops from narrow bands of clouds that form when cold, dry arctic air passes over a large, relatively mild lake.

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The lake effect snow band pounding Upstate New York today is so powerful that snow is nearly reaching Boston. Some of that snow is making a nearly 1,000-mile journey from Lake ...

More than 650,000 people in New York and parts of Pennsylvania remain under Lake-Effect Snow Warnings after 14-24 inches of snow already blanketed parts of the region.

As expect, heavy lake effect snow north of Oneida Lake and east of Lake Ontario has produced at least one to two feet of snow. However, as a secondary cold front pushes through the area Tuesday ...

Two lake effect snowstorms in northern and western New York this upcoming week will bring several inches to 2 feet of snow.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Lake Effect Snow Warning was scheduled to run until 4 a.m. Thursday, but it was allowed to expire early for Southern Erie, Wyoming, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua counties. A ...

The NWS has issued a lake effect snow warning for parts of upstate New York. Here's how much snow is expected.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -FRIDAY: Lake effect snow continues roughly in the same spots, especially over sections of Oswego, northern Oneida, and southwestern Lewis counti ...

Lake-effect snow is something talked about in the Pittsburgh region every winter season, but what exactly is it and how does it occur?

Lake effect snow, which occurs most often in the late fall and winter, occurs when cold air moves across the relatively warm waters of – you guessed it – a lake, which results in the transfer ...