Buffalo News: Brace yourself. Novembers white nightmare could become a recurring bad dream of varying intensity.
While last weeks winter blast appears to be the freak offspring of a typhoon-blasted jet stream and a warm Lake Erie, its also part of a long-term pattern that shows no sign of changing.
Meteorologists and geographers say that lake-effect snows have increased as temperatures have warmed in recent decades. That means more bizarre early-season storms, though not necessarily as bad as last weeks,...