Arctic blast continues to hammer Northern U.S., disrupting post-Thanksgiving travel
An Arctic blast brought snow, frost and dangerously cold winds to the northern Plains, the Midwest and the Great Lakes, creating “very difficult to impossible” travel conditions on one of the busiest days of the year, as millions of people head home from their Thanksgiving destinations.
An Arctic blast brought snow, frost and dangerously cold winds to the northern Plains, the Midwest and the Great Lakes, creating “very difficult to impossible” travel conditions on one of the busiest days of the year, as millions of people head home from their Thanksgiving destinations.
About 9 million people are under winter alerts across the nation, with nearly 3 million in parts of New York state, Pennsylvania and Ohio under warnings for lake effect snow showers, triggered by a clash of the south-moving arctic blast and comparatively warm lake water.
More than 2.3 million in parts of New York state, Michigan, Minnesota and West Virginia are covered by winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories, with the warnings stating heavy snow, ice and blizzard conditions are almost certain. The advisories state rapidly accumulating snow, freezing rain and blowing snow are likely.
Travel-thwarting lake effect snow bands developed anew downwind of the Great Lakes in northeast Ohio, far northwest Pennsylvania and western New York and parts of northwest New York on Sunday, generating fresh accumulations and burying some locations in feet of the white stuff.
A location along the Black River in Jefferson County, New York, produced an accumulated-snow reading on Sunday of nearly 46 inches, according to National Weather Service data. Silver Creek in Chautauqua County measured 32 inches of accumulated snow, the data show. A location in Calcium, a small northern New York community east of Lake Ontario, measured nearly 1 foot on Sunday alone, the weather service said.
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