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Lake-Effect Snow

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Which choice most accurately summarizes New York’s Lake-Effect Snow?

New York’s climate varies through interacting latitude, elevation, continentality, lake influence, and Atlantic influence.
Lake-effect snow illustrates atmospheric instability, fetch, moisture transfer, and wind-direction controls at a regional scale.
New Netherland’s economy depended on waterways, merchant networks, and Indigenous exchange relationships, linking environmental and social histories.
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy should be treated as an alliance of sovereign nations with internal political diversity rather than as a single undifferentiated polity.

Correct answer(s):

Lake-effect snow illustrates atmospheric instability, fetch, moisture transfer, and wind-direction controls at a regional scale.

Which statement would be most accurate in a New York State study guide about Lake-Effect Snow?

Northern and high-elevation parts of New York generally have colder, longer winters than New York City and Long Island.
New York City and Long Island tend to have milder winters than much of inland and northern New York because of their southerly and coastal location.
Cold air passing over relatively warmer Great Lakes water can produce heavy lake-effect snow in western New York.
The State University of New York is a statewide public higher-education system.

Correct answer(s):

Cold air passing over relatively warmer Great Lakes water can produce heavy lake-effect snow in western New York.