Drone footage captured ice staying put on Lake Erie amid high wind warnings for western New York on Saturday, March 14.
X user @weather_buffalo shared this footage with the caption: “Lake Erie’s ice boom held up against the first round of high wind warnings, will it hold up against the next one?”
The source explained to Storyful that the ice boom was put in place to prevent ice from building up along the lake shore.
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“Sometimes if the winds are strong enough you can get ice shoving onto the shorelines. This time around the ice boom remained intact and prevented this from happening. Will it be able to stop the next event?”
The National Weather Service warned of gusts as high as 55 to 65 mph across western NY, with gusts up to 65 to 70 mph close to Lake Erie on Friday night and into Saturday morning. Credit: @weather_buffalo via Storyful