BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could ...

This time last year, Buffalo had accumulated only about 60 inches of snow. Much of that had come during a mid-January lake effect snowstorm that dumped 38 inches in Buffalo over about three days.