{"id":106076,"date":"2026-01-20T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106076\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:53:18","slug":"lake-effect-snow-causes-whiteout-conditions-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106076\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake-Effect Snow Causes Whiteout Conditions in New York State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lake-effect snow brought blizzard-like conditions to parts of New York on Monday, January 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSBUFFALO\/status\/2013258431788986661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:had forecasted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">had forecasted<\/a> that a snowband from Lake Erie would bring snowfall rates of up to one inch per hour and wind gusts of up to 50 mph on Monday, causing \u201cvery difficult travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage recorded by Richard Hulburd, who posts videos as @weather_buffalo, shows the heavy snowfall and strong winds at Woodlawn Beach in the Buffalo, New York, area. He also captured huge waves pushing ice on Lake Erie. Credit: @weather_buffalo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake-effect snow brought blizzard-like conditions to parts of New York on Monday, January 19. The National Weather Service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28699,48040,534,9,11,10,49,51,50,48042,48041],"class_list":["post-106076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-lake-effect-snow","tag-lake-erie","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-richard-hulburd","tag-woodlawn-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}