I am really not sure where this posting belongs, but it started as an observation from my apartment window, then became a photographic effort, then an effort to explain the phenomenon I saw. The images are suboptimal, i was inside, not daring to go outside and the snow was really swirling around at high speeds.
I Lived my entire career in medicine, discovering things that were obvious, but that others missed. This included being the first to report a serial killer working in a hospital which ended up as the conviction of what some consider the most prolific serial murderer in the US history. If interested, see my book: Medical Toxicology, Antidotes and Anecdotes, published by Springer in 2017.
To make a long story short, there was a severe Nor-Eastern predicted for much of the country last week. In my area of NJ, Short Hills, we dodged the major bullet, with no real accumulation of snow. We did get the strong winds, allegedly gusting to in the 40 mph range. With it came swirling snow. When I looked out of my apartment window i was struck by something I had never seen before. The snow had accumulated on the vertical portion of every tree in sight, but, NOT ON THE NE side, in reality, the western side of the trees were accumulating the snow.
This made no sense to me at the time, if the winds were coming from the NE driving the snow, why did the snow not accumulate on that side. I looked up what the definition of a Nor-easter was to be sure that i was correct, that the winds come from the NE. Conforming that, I reached out to people I thought were smarter than me for help. There was silence from them all.
I postulated that perhaps, the tree trunk was acting like the leading edge of a wing and that the side opposite was developing a "vacuum effect" from the rapid rushing wind, the Bernoulli effect. I finally reached a meteorologist who said she had never been asked that question before, but felt that my explanation was probably sound.
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/fluids/fluid-dynamics/a/what-is-bernoullis-equationhttps://www.skybrary.aero/articles/bernoullis-principle