Weather Focus 3: Winter Weather Awareness Week Part 1
CLEVELAND -- This week is Winter Weather Awareness Week where each day this week, we'll bring a different topic about our winter weather. Today's feature is on the Climatology of the northeast Ohio winter.
As we move into late fall, it is once again time to refresh your memory about winter weather hazards and how you can plan for the life-threatening situations that winter weather can bring.
Each year, many people take winter weather too lightly, which often results in serious injury or even death.
During this week, please take some time to read and listen to information about winter storms and winter weather terminology. More importantly, please review how you can protect yourself from extreme cold, snow and other winter hazards.
Snow across Ohio generally occurs in two ways:
1. From organized weather systems that cross over or near the region. During a typical winter, these weather systems bring a number ofsmall snowfalls of 2 inches or less.
Several times a year the region may be threatened by a well developed storm system that has the potential to produce heavier snow of 6 inches or more. Storm systems can be fifficult to predict at times. A small shift in the storm track can mean the difference between shoveling and partly cloudy skies.
2. Lake effect snow occurs when very cold air flows across the Great Lakes during the winter months and absorbs moisture. The moisture is then condensed out east and south of the Great Lakes.
The result is cloudiness and snow showers. This "lake effect" snow adds substantially to the winter snowfall across portions of northeast Ohio. Over portions of our region, heavy amounts of lake effect snow can occur.
The close proximity to Lake Erie and the higher terrain of northeast Ohio causes substantial lake effect snow during cold outbreaks. Much of this region receives over 40 inches of snow during a typical winter.
Parts of the "snowbelt" of extreme northeast Ohio receive over 100 inches of snow each season.
On average, here is what select cities in Ohio can expect during the winter:
Daily weather information is available 24 hours a day from the National Weather service.
Forecasts for Ohio are regularly issued 4 times a day and updated as often as necessary.
Read more about NWS/Cleveland on their website @ http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/.
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Our special thanks to Gary Garnet and the National Weather Service Office in Cleveland for the information.
As we move into late fall, it is once again time to refresh your memory about winter weather hazards and how you can plan for the life-threatening situations that winter weather can bring.
Each year, many people take winter weather too lightly, which often results in serious injury or even death.During this week, please take some time to read and listen to information about winter storms and winter weather terminology. More importantly, please review how you can protect yourself from extreme cold, snow and other winter hazards.
Snow across Ohio generally occurs in two ways:
1. From organized weather systems that cross over or near the region. During a typical winter, these weather systems bring a number ofsmall snowfalls of 2 inches or less.
Several times a year the region may be threatened by a well developed storm system that has the potential to produce heavier snow of 6 inches or more. Storm systems can be fifficult to predict at times. A small shift in the storm track can mean the difference between shoveling and partly cloudy skies.
2. Lake effect snow occurs when very cold air flows across the Great Lakes during the winter months and absorbs moisture. The moisture is then condensed out east and south of the Great Lakes.
The result is cloudiness and snow showers. This "lake effect" snow adds substantially to the winter snowfall across portions of northeast Ohio. Over portions of our region, heavy amounts of lake effect snow can occur.
The close proximity to Lake Erie and the higher terrain of northeast Ohio causes substantial lake effect snow during cold outbreaks. Much of this region receives over 40 inches of snow during a typical winter.
Parts of the "snowbelt" of extreme northeast Ohio receive over 100 inches of snow each season.
On average, here is what select cities in Ohio can expect during the winter:
- Akron-Canton: 47.9 inches
- Cincinnati OH/Covington KY: 22.9 inches
- Cleveland: 63.3 inches
- Columbus: 29.2 inches
- Dayton: 29.3 inches
- Mansfield: 45.4 inches
- Toledo: 37.6 inches
- Youngstown: 55.0 inches
Daily weather information is available 24 hours a day from the National Weather service.
Forecasts for Ohio are regularly issued 4 times a day and updated as often as necessary.
Read more about NWS/Cleveland on their website @ http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/.
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Our special thanks to Gary Garnet and the National Weather Service Office in Cleveland for the information.
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