Even while the snow was still falling in Buffalo during November's snowpocalypse, speculation was rampant that climate change was at fault and that it was leading to more lake effect snow.  Except when we looked critically at the data here at AT, and the climate change narrative started unravelling. Now there is a new study reporting that "less lake effect snow, more rain near Great Lakes as climate changes."  According to the article describing this most recent research: The study by University of Wisconsin researchers says a warmer planet will mean up to a 50 percent drop in lake effect snow in areas downwind of the Great Lakes, which includes Buffalo and Syracuse. As the lakes and air get several degrees warmer, and ice nearly disappears from the lakes, the air blowing from the west will bring more rain, the study says. 'The total amount of precipitation will go up, but will be more lake effect rain than lake effect snow,' said the lead...(Read Full Post)