{"id":30292,"date":"2025-11-10T19:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30292\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:06:06","slug":"where-are-the-lake-erie-snow-belts-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30292\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the Lake Erie snow belts in Ohio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) &#8211; The snow belt &#8212; it\u2019s part of every Northeast Ohioan\u2019s vocabulary all winter, but does anyone know exactly where it is?<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Not really. The snow belt is a geographical area that, climatologically speaking, receives more snow than the rest of Northeast Ohio. Any state connected to one of the Great Lakes actually has its own snow belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Northeast Ohio\u2019s snow belt locations often see or possess many of the ingredients we need for efficient lake effect snow development: instability, fetch, wind shear, flow from upstream lakes and higher terrain. This isn\u2019t to say that towns outside of the snow belt don\u2019t see snow. They do. It\u2019s just that, historically, snow belt communities see more of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Here in the Buckeye State, we have three snow belts: a primary, a secondary, and a tertiary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Primary snow belt residents see more snow than secondary and tertiary snow belt-ers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The primary snow belt is comprised of the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Ashtabula CountyLake CountyGeauga CountyEastern Cuyahoga CountyNorthern Portage CountyNorthern Trumbull County<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The secondary snow belt is comprised of the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Southern Cuyahoga CountySouthern Lorain CountyNorthern and central Medina CountyNorthern and central Summit CountyCentral Portage CountyCentral and southern Trumbull County<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The tertiary snow belt is comprised of the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Northern and central Richland CountyNorthern and central Ashland County<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A look at the snow belts across Northeast Ohio\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UQKRR55TJ5GPRDXYIW6X73TSVY.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A look at the snow belts across Northeast Ohio(WOIO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A common misconception is that coastal Lake Erie on the east side of Cleveland is part of the snow belt &#8212; it\u2019s not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Downtown Cleveland isn\u2019t even in the snow belt because of its location on the north coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s often areas inland &#8212; five or so miles away from the lake &#8212; that see the most snow. Downtown Cleveland isn\u2019t in the snow belt because of its close proximity to the lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) &#8211; The snow belt &#8212; it\u2019s part of every Northeast Ohioan\u2019s vocabulary all winter, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,136,138,137,19228,19229,19227],"class_list":["post-30292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cleveland","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-northeast-ohio","tag-secondary","tag-snow-belt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}