Americans are now bracing for heavy snow, hazardous ice, rain and severe thunderstorms ... The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Winter Storm Severity Index and other ...

Of course, on a regional scale, those relatively warm waters of the lakes are responsible for very heavy lake-effect snow ... when ice cover went as high as 92.5%. In Figure 2 below, the map ...

An assortment of NOAA-funded snow and ... NSIDC houses the decommissioned snow and ice products, which include datasets on global sea ice extent, snow cover and at least 130,000 glaciers around ...

according to NOAA. Low ice coverage can lead to an extended lake-effect snow season, which brought a powerful storm in December that dumped over 4 feet of snow in Buffalo, N.Y., and resulted in at ...