The event has been held in Buffalo due to its central location and the amount of snow Western New York receives every year. Stark added that there over 50 vendors at the Snow Symposium.

Here's what causes lake-effect snow and what the areas in the Midwest can expect ... Over the Thanksgiving Day weekend it is likely the snow belt from Cleveland to Buffalo may record over 2 feet ...

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At this point, we don't anticipate heavy snow for the Rochester area, but the traditional snow belt areas south of Buffalo and east of Lake Ontario could see heavy snow heading into the weekend.

But if you live north of Syracuse or south of Buffalo (the typical snow belt areas). Those communities are measuring snow not in inches, but in feet.

The canopy roof was designed with an innovative snow melt system that will ... averaging 92 inches a year due to the traditional lake effect snow belts with cold winds from ... — Buffalo Bills ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Nearly 1 million people in the state of New York are under Lake-Effect Snow Warnings on Monday, concentrated mostly in the areas south of Buffalo and around Watertown.

In addition, Burt said the snow belts around the Great Lakes that get the most eye-popping snowfalls tend to be not right on the lakeshores, but rather places inland 20 or so miles, where hills ...

Syracuse, New York; Rochester, New York; Buffalo, New York; Thanks primarily to lake-effect snow, the USA's snowiest big city is Syracuse, New York, which gets about 11 feet of snow per winter ...