From the West it’s off Lake Michigan and from the East it’s off the Bay and Lake Huron.
I just got back in from 1 1/2 mile walk in the cold and wind. You only hate the weather if you don’t go out and enjoy it.

Dress for the elements not style.

Howdy, mgc everything going good?

It happens in every state bordering the Great Lakes.
We're on the south shore of Lake Ontario, and lake effect bands of snow can last for days. It's even worse on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. They measure their lake effect snow in feet, not inches.
I think the author of that article meant, or should have meant, any body of land on the downwind side of an open body of water during frigid winter storms.
Michigan is hardly the only place on earth where this happens.

I can attest to the fact that lake effect snow storms are just as brutal there as they are in parts of Michigan. I've lived in both states.

i watch all the time as much needed rain here on the w coast of the lake gets sucked right past me.
it can b a huge storm out on the plains, but when it hits that heavy lake air, it just shreds. i’ve had tornados pass over and not get my sidewalk wet.
le sigh. at least it saves in snow shoveling.

In my very early teens my family and I lived in a town called Cardinal, Ontario, and it had the remnants of a very old canal and dock system, leading to having a very long and narrow peninsula on the southern side of town, which can be seen from the public school I went to a the time.

The thing with storms that form or cross over big bodies of water like that, is that there's nothing to break them up along the way so the winds can get pretty strong. I remember watching from the back entrance of the public school waves crashing right over the whole of parts of that peninsula into the canal. I also remember leaning over a small drop of the concrete block in front of that back entrance, and having the wind hold me up during some of those storms.

but we did get that 4 in in may years ago.