Lake-Effect Snow Thump for Great Lakes, Northeast
Image of snow at night by Adam Gryko. From Photos.com.
Some heavy lake-effect snow bands will continue to stream downwind of the Great Lakes into tonight as cold winds whip through the area.
The colder air is rushing into the region following the snowstorm that targeted northern New England on Friday. The storm was also responsible for the recent outbreak of severe weather across the South.
The Great Lakes are still relatively mild and mostly unfrozen, which is rare for this late in the season, so the cold air is having no trouble igniting lake-effect bands of snow.
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The snow will wind down across the western Great Lakes into this evening, but will continue to threaten travel downwind of lakes Erie and Ontario through at least the first half of tonight.
It is not just places in close proximity to the lakes that should be prepared for sudden bursts of snow that rapidly reduce visibility and create hazardous road conditions.
Multiple intense bands of snow continue to drop southeastward through central and eastern Pennsylvania. These bands have a history of producing snowfall rates greater than an inch per hour and near-whiteout conditions.
Selected snowfall totals through Saturday Afternoon include:
Westmont, Pa. - 2.3 inches
Bellefonte, Pa. - 2.0 inches
Grampian, Pa. - 3.0 inches
Chardon, Oh. - 4.0 inches
Titusville, Pa. - 5.3 inches
West Valley, N.Y. - 7.0 inches
Constableville, N.Y. - 6.5 inches
Portageville, N.Y. - 6.5 inches
The snow showers will come to an end throughout the Northeast tonight as high pressure begins to build overhead.
That high will lead to a calmer Sunday across the eastern Great Lakes and mid-Atlantic. New England will still have to endure brisk winds to close out the weekend.
AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski contributed to the content of this story.
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