Winter doesn't start until Dec. 21 ... has issued a winter storm watch for Erie and Crawford counties from late Thanksgiving Day through Monday at 7 a.m. Heavy lake-effect snow is expected ...

Multiple winter weather-related alerts are in place across parts of New York, as well as further south in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz and Buffalo's Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon held a news conference on Wednesday in anticipation of a significant lake effect winter storm ...

so do the water levels in Lake Erie as predicted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In December, the water levels in Lake Erie reached a high level of 571.56 feet and a low level of 571 feet.

It results in less cloud cover and thus less lake-effect snow when storm systems move over the lake. Current Lake Erie ice coverage: Lake Erie is the shallowest of the lakes and usually freezes ...

"Heavy lake-effect ... replaced a winter storm warning that had been issued overnight. The forecast now calls for the possibility of 6 inches to 14 inches of snowfall for Erie during the warning ...