Regions that get lake effect snow tend to get more. It is a little surprising since you think of Wisconsin as a big snow state, but they don't get dumped on with the huge snowfalls like lake effect regions do.
More populated places in lake effect snow areas get a lot of attention as well. You seldom hear about it in Michigan but all along Lake Michigan and much of lake Superior get a lot of snow.
Wrong. Ever been to the 'Snowbelt' (in northern Wisconsin/UP) in winter? I have many times skiing and the lake effect snow that comes off of Lake Superior is nothing like you've seen in your life.
Furthermore, Milwaukee is on Lake Michigan and we've had many huge lake effect snow storms. You just don't hear about it because we're not NYC or Boston.
When we lived in the snowbelt, roof shoveling was a very popular sport. Usually happened about twice a year.
The worst month for snow I know of was Jan 2004. I was doing measuring for the NWS and we got a couple lake effect events and ended up with 11 FEET of snow, for the month. We had a state of emergency declared two weekends in a row and this in a town that didn’t break out the plows until there was at least 6 inches on the ground.
When you wanted to go anywhere, you just got in your vehicle and drove right through it.
The most I’ve ever seen was a snowfall rate of 5 inches an hour. You can’t even see across the street at that rate.
We moved. WHOOO HOOO!!!!