CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The snow belt -- it’s part of every Northeast Ohioian’s vocabulary all winter but does anyone know exactly where it is?

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.

Northeast Ohio’s 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’t to say that towns outside of the snow belt don’t see snow. They do. It’s just that historically, snow belt communities see more of it.

Here in the Buckeye State, we have two snow belts: a primary and a secondary.

Primar

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