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How Lake-Effect Snow Happens (And Why Buffalo Looks Like Hoth Right Now)

The Great Lakes region is the United States’ snowiest non-mountainous region. The reason for freak snowstorms like the one currently setting records in Buffalo, New York is a weather phenomenon called lake-effect snow.
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So much for autumn, huh?

If you haven’t heard, they’re riding tauntauns in Buffalo this week as a major snowstorm has blanketed parts of the region with as much as six feet of snow.

RT @fe1ix78: The front of my house in South Cheektowaga! pic.twitter.com/CkmPEX7UZD#lakeeffect

— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) November 19, 2014

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