The lake effect in action

I Googled it: "Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water, warming the lower layer of air which picks up water vapor from the lake, rises up through the colder air above, freezes and is deposited on the leeward (downwind) shores."

Eh somethin about water coming off a lake and the areas next to the lakes get super duper frozen

Is that why it looks like frosting and not like an icicle?