On an 80-degree Friday afternoon in July, at a factory just outside Buffalo, it was snowing. But this was not your run-of-the-mill frozen water vapor. The shredded bits then drifted down a turquoise chute into a cardboard box, forming a soft white mound of what looked like freshly fallen snow. The process was handled by workers in the Flakes Department, one of several teams at the factory in Depew, where the holiday decoration brand Buffalo Snow has been manufacturing blizzards annually since the 1980s. Natural snow, an indelible part of wintertime scenery, has in many places been in short supply lately because of rising temperatures.

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Persons: Snow Locations: Buffalo, Depew, United States