Areas off the Great Lakes are used to big snowfall events, earning the title of Ontario’s snowbelt. Yet something new is happening
She thought maybe an earthquake had struck near her home in Torrance, a village in Ontario ’s cottage country.
Richard Rood, a climate scientist who studies the Great Lakes, says lake-effect snowstorms will likely intensify as the planet warms. Those storms are typical in late autumn or early winter, when lake temperatures are still relatively warm. By the depths of winter, ice cover helps to cut off evaporation, said meteorologist Arnold Ashton.
“The Gravenhurst apocalyptic metre-and-a-half of snow was a late November, early December event ... but with a warming climate, those events could linger,” Ashton said. It took four days for their power to come back on, she said, while for others it took more than a week.Trying to predict the effects of a changing climate on winter weather comes with uncertainty, meteorologists say.
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