NY college gets US grant to study lake-effect snow

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OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York college located in one of the snowiest places in the nation is getting a $320,000 federal grant to study lake-effect snow storms.

The State University at Oswego is one of four getting a portion of the nearly $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to gather data with the help of an airplane, Doppler radar-equipped trucks and weather-profiling instruments. The work will be done in conjunction with the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, Colo., University of Wyoming, University of Alabama-Huntsville and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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