--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's OK--just kind of embarrassing. Like I don't even know if > Syracuse is on a Great Lake or not offhand. That sort of thing.
Syracuse isn't directly on Lake Ontario -- it's got much smaller Onondaga Lake and the Erie Canal closer by -- but it's close enough to the big lake to catch the lake effect from a northwest wind. If the wind blows straight out of the west, then Syracuse is missed but Watertown (and Parish) get hammered. If the wind is out of the southwest, then Lake Erie's lake effect buries Buffalo but only the Watertown area of New York gets snow on the U.S. side (eastern Ontario would also 'get it'. The storm now approaching the Northeast is expected to draw in a stiff northeast wind around Toledo, so we may get a little "lake enhanced" snow out of it. I moved to Toledo in 1993 to take a good job offer. It was my ex, who I met here, who introduced me to Gene's stuff -- she did some of her growing up in Gaithersburg and her family lived in the DC area until recently. They're all out of my life now, but the Gene connection lives on. David Patch Toledo, OH
