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| Climate |
| Buffalo has a perhaps undeserved reputation for
severe weather. In fact its summers are sunnier than those of
most east coast cities, and due to the effect of breezes off
Lake Erie, cooler as well. The winters are long, and due to
the lake effect they average more snowfall than most northern
cities, but they are not extremely cold. |
| The occasionally very heavy snowfall in the region
is caused by below-freezing winds blowing over the warmer water
of Lake Erie. Often the resulting meandering "snow belts"
are only ten or fifteen miles wide, with sun shining in one
spot and a raging lake effect blizzard occurring only a mile
or two away. Lake Erie is much shallower than the other Great
Lakes, and usually freezes over in the winter. When this occurs,
lake effect snowfall ends. Perhaps the best known snow storm
in Buffalo history is the Blizzard of '77. |
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