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Several inches of snow are expected to fall on the Massachusetts islands and in some Cape Cod communities over the course of Christmas Eve.

Interview with Tom Niziol, a longtime meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service in Buffalo, New York, about lake-effect snow.

Warnings ahead of this historic march blizzard. how much snow and when and where, we're joined now. one of the last times he'll be in a suit for the next few days. >> i have those boots you don't like too. probably 12 to 18 inches here in new york city. maybe less in boston if it mixes in with a little bit of rain. not with those huge numbers we're going to see here. what is going to happen is its going to interact with the atlantic ocean and the ocean is warm. relatively warm. it's warm enough that when the storm is here, down here across the deep south when it runs up into the ocean and grab...

You get this lake-effect snow. boston will actually get ocean-effect snow. that cold wind will wraparound and blow itself right into boston. the ocean is a lot bigger than lake erie or lake ontario. canada will get pounded by the same storm as we work our way into the weekend. >> chad myers, you look good in snow, my friend. thank you so much. boston strong, they can deal. >> a foot of snow, that's nothing. >> we won the super bowl, it's nothing. still to come for us, mixed messages over the direction of the new administration. that plus the fact that some key diplomatic positions are still ...

Snowfall occurs? same type of ingredients. we have cold air rushing over relatively warm water that is ice-free, by the way. it reaches a land mass that has some sort of upward lift to it. over let's say, mountains and hills. it causes the air to rise, cools, condenses, creates the cloud cover and what falls from that cloud cover? lake effect or ocean-effect snow. that's what's happening across the sea of japan. here we are across this part of the world. you can see that strong northwesterly component to the wind wrapping around an area of high pressure bringing in cold siberian cold air. that...