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Walking on the shores of Lake Ontario in winter.
[Early January 2017]
Some of the places that we walked:
Durand Eastman Park beach,
the beaches at Charlotte, Rochester New York,
Buck pond,wildlife preserves, Rochester New York.
Rochester New York
[located basically on the borders of Canada
in the North] used to be very very snowy in winter,
and there was very little walking on the beaches, as generally speaking
there would be way too much snow.
Rochester was a snow belt state. It was very famous for lake effect snow, because of the fact that it was by Lake Ontario and it was quite mild [comparatively], in winter, therefore seemingly causing a lot of precipitation.
[see below]
Nowadays, it seems like we hardly get almost any precipitation in the winter. Once in a while we still get the lake effect snow, but not on the same level. This is actually ironically quite handy for people who like to walk, but sad for those who enjoyed winter. The upside of this however is one can walk by the lake in the winter time now, and enjoy the beauty of the water.
The days that we went out recently, it was in the upper 30s,
so it wasn't terribly cold. There is a definite serenity to being on beaches in winter, much more so than probably any other time of the year. Therefore, if one has an opportunity to do so, one should absolutely take a walk by bodies of water in seasons when no one is about, and when the weather is gray and cloudy. It is often very beautiful.....
Lake-effect snow
Cold northwesterly wind over Great Lakes Superior
and Michigan created the lake-effect snowfall
of December 5, 2000.
Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water, warming the lower layer of air which picks up water vapor from the lake, rises up through the colder air above, freezes and is deposited on the leeward (downwind) shores.[1]
The same effect also occurs over bodies of salt water, when it is termed ocean-effect or bay-effect snow. The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by the orographic influence of higher elevations on the downwind shores. This uplifting can produce narrow but very intense bands of precipitation, which deposit at a rate of many inches of snow each hour, often resulting in a large amount of total snowfall.
The areas affected by lake-effect snow are called snowbelts. These include areas east of the Great Lakes, the west coasts of northern Japan, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and areas near the Great Salt Lake, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Baltic Sea, and parts of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
A lake-effect blizzard is the blizzard-like conditions resulting from lake-effect snow. Under certain conditions, strong winds can accompany lake-effect snows creating blizzard-like conditions; however the duration of the event is often slightly less than that required for a blizzard warning [2] in both the US and Canada.
wikipedia.org/...
Winter
by Walter de la Mare
Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
Alone sings now.
The rayless sun,
Day's journey done,
Sheds its last ebbing light
On fields in leagues of beauty spread
Unearthly white.
Thick draws the dark,
And spark by spark,
The frost-fires kindle, and soon
Over that sea of frozen foam
Floats the white moon.
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario (French: Lac Ontario) is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the American state of New York, whose water boundaries meet in the middle of the lake. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake. In the Wyandot (Huron) language, ontarío means “Lake of Shining Waters”. Its primary inlet is the Niagara River from Lake Erie. The last in the Great Lakes chain, Lake Ontario serves as the outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence River.
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