It’s not depth, it’s temperature differential. The Great Salt Lake is shallow, yet can make lake effect snow. Of course, the deeper a lake is, the longer it takes to cool and freeze. The GSL cools fast enough that past early December, lake effect snow is rare in Utah. Interestingly, parts of the Great Salt Lake actually froze in the cold, wet, snowy winters of the 1980’s. What happened is that the increased water inflow during those wet years tended to float on top of the denser salt water, and that topmost fresh layer in the vicinity of the incoming rivers then froze.

That much is certainly true.

Sure beats a coast to coast TORCH.

It's just the fact the pattern not working out for us is why they are going to be getting that. We blew a good opportunity here.

That's a good point, the lake is shallow and frequently freezes, which would shut off any lake effect snow chances. I'm not sure how often it freezes, I don't think it is every year, but it's not uncommon.