How far does lake effect snow travel from a lake?

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It can travel several hundreds of miles, but it won't drop a lot of snow so far unless it is forced upwards by mountains (southwestern PA gets a lot of snow this way). For example, snow bands off Ontario have been known to travel all the way to the Atlantic, though by that time they rarely do anything more than just whiten the ground.
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