I just received an email from Cynthia from Madison, WI who grew up in Syracuse sending me a link about Scientists and researchers from several Universities and institutions coming to the shores of Ontario Lake to study what’s going on with Thundersnow during Lake Effect Snow events. SUNY Oswego is also participating in the study and research 🙂
The project is called OWLeS which stands for Ontario Winter Lake Effect System’s and will be taking place this snow season on the shores of Ontario lake. What will be cool is some of the high tech equipment they will be bringing with them. Most likely if you’re in the Oswego and surrounding areas you will be seeing this flatbed truck below which is called Doppler on Wheels or DOW.
Doppler On Wheels
 Doppler on Wheels Picture From The National Science Foundation
They will also be bringing and aircraft equipped with instruments from the University of Wyoming called the King Air so keep an eye in the sky for the scientists who fly. Yeah, I’m a poet, not 😉 Anyways this should be pretty cool for the people to watch not to mention the amount of information that will come out of this research to help in the future on narrowing down and predicting more precisely where Lake Effect snow may hit, when and for how long.
The dates for this study according to the article on the NSF, National Science Foundation website that Cynthia sent me will be from Dec. 5-21, 2013, and Jan. 4-29, 2014. Thanks for the info Cynthia and you can read a lot more about this on the National Science Foundation’s website at http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=129618&org=NSF&from=news .
Have an Awesome Weekend and Hopefully a Snowy One 🙂
