Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Lake-effect snow

Romanian translation:

viscol de scurtă durată

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English term

Lake-effect snow

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Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when cold winds move across long expanses of warmer lake water, providing energy and picking up water vapor, which freezes and is deposited on the leeward shores. The same effect also occurs over bodies of salt water, when it is termed ocean-effect or bay-effect snow. The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic influence of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow each hour, often resulting in copious snowfall totals.

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'Lake Effect Snow, also called snow squalls, results from cold, arctic air traveling over a relatively warm body of water.'
http://cleveland.about.com/od/northeastohioweather/p/lakeeff...
'A snow squall is a brief, but intense snowfall that greatly reduces visibility and which is often accompanied by strong winds.'
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/snow/science/types.html

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscol
http://www.altadict.ro/dictionar/squall
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