Post by General William T. Sherman on Apr 11, 2016 20:30:06 GMT
This is in response to Bismarck II's post about the Wrath of Florida. Here's the link to his thread:
Read more: european-war-4.boards.net/thread/2107/wrath-florida#ixzz45YDk9plc
But since he talked about the wrath of the wonderful state of Florida, I may as well talk about our own wrath here in WNY.
So in the regions around Lake Erie, it gets VERY cold during the winters. VERY COLD. But it doesn't just get cold, thats too little of a punishment. We also have to have a ridiculous amount of snow as well. Let me just explain some stuff about why we get so much snow (prepare for some SCIENCE):
The basics of Lake Effect Snow:
Lake Effect Snow is kind of weird and somewhat hard to understand because its kind of the opposite of what you'd expect to happen, because warm weather is required to make this effect happen.
So this is what happens: During the Autumn, it is always either summer weather with high temperatures or typical fall temperatures with somewhat cold temperatures but not too cold. If we have typical autumn temperatures this is what will happen when Winter rolls around: Lake Erie will freeze very early on in the winter. When the lake freezes early, the water in the lake can no longer evaporate into the atmosphere and thus will not allow for the creation of large amounts of snow. If the Autumn is pretty warm, however, the Lake will not freeze until later into the winter, in which case the water from the like can evaporate into the atmosphere. When this happen, large amounts of precipitation form in the atmosphere, which then becomes snow when it falls.
When all this snow falls, it becomes either like Hell on Earth, only its cold and not warm, or a jolly winter wonderland. Most of the time we get so much snow that it becomes the former.
Last year, we had so much snowfall in November that we had two weeks off school due to the snow, there was a driving ban in our whole city, Governor Andrew Cuomo himself came to Buffalo, and some people even died during this storm! During this storm, i actually became a great GoG player, so thats something. I still remember our neighbors making bread in their home and then going around to all the people in the neighborhood and handing all of us this warm bread. They did this twice, i believe. There was no big grocer around our neighborhood, but there was this one organic place in town, so we had to walk from our home to this place. A walk that would usually take me around 10 minutes to go to and back from took me about 40 minutes due to the sheer wind, snow, and ice. And there was a driving ban, so we couldn't just drive.
This storm was so big that it was larger than the previous largest we've had in 1977 (there were actually books written about the Blizzard of 77), and we had to get rid of our spring break due to all the days we had to miss. This storm even got its own name: Snowvember.
Read more: european-war-4.boards.net/thread/2107/wrath-florida#ixzz45YDk9plc
But since he talked about the wrath of the wonderful state of Florida, I may as well talk about our own wrath here in WNY.
So in the regions around Lake Erie, it gets VERY cold during the winters. VERY COLD. But it doesn't just get cold, thats too little of a punishment. We also have to have a ridiculous amount of snow as well. Let me just explain some stuff about why we get so much snow (prepare for some SCIENCE):
The basics of Lake Effect Snow:
Lake Effect Snow is kind of weird and somewhat hard to understand because its kind of the opposite of what you'd expect to happen, because warm weather is required to make this effect happen.
So this is what happens: During the Autumn, it is always either summer weather with high temperatures or typical fall temperatures with somewhat cold temperatures but not too cold. If we have typical autumn temperatures this is what will happen when Winter rolls around: Lake Erie will freeze very early on in the winter. When the lake freezes early, the water in the lake can no longer evaporate into the atmosphere and thus will not allow for the creation of large amounts of snow. If the Autumn is pretty warm, however, the Lake will not freeze until later into the winter, in which case the water from the like can evaporate into the atmosphere. When this happen, large amounts of precipitation form in the atmosphere, which then becomes snow when it falls.
When all this snow falls, it becomes either like Hell on Earth, only its cold and not warm, or a jolly winter wonderland. Most of the time we get so much snow that it becomes the former.
Last year, we had so much snowfall in November that we had two weeks off school due to the snow, there was a driving ban in our whole city, Governor Andrew Cuomo himself came to Buffalo, and some people even died during this storm! During this storm, i actually became a great GoG player, so thats something. I still remember our neighbors making bread in their home and then going around to all the people in the neighborhood and handing all of us this warm bread. They did this twice, i believe. There was no big grocer around our neighborhood, but there was this one organic place in town, so we had to walk from our home to this place. A walk that would usually take me around 10 minutes to go to and back from took me about 40 minutes due to the sheer wind, snow, and ice. And there was a driving ban, so we couldn't just drive.
This storm was so big that it was larger than the previous largest we've had in 1977 (there were actually books written about the Blizzard of 77), and we had to get rid of our spring break due to all the days we had to miss. This storm even got its own name: Snowvember.
