Snow Belt
Snow Belt ( Engl. For "snow belt") is the name given to an area around the Great Lakes in the Northeast and Midwest of the United States of America . In the regions on the southern and eastern banks of the lakes, heavy snowfalls are more frequent in winter. One reason for this is the lake effect . Cold winds absorb moisture when crossing the lakes, which then falls in the form of snowfall on the shore zones. This effect lasts during the winter months as long as the water temperature is higher than that of the air or until the lake freezes over.
The Snow Belt covers parts of the US states
Similar snowfall conditions as in the Snow Belt are also found on the west side of Hokkaidō in Japan and Kamchatka in Russia . There, cold winds from the winter highs of Siberia accumulate moisture when crossing the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk , which then precipitates over the coasts as slope precipitation.