Disruptive snow, slippery travel to shift eastward across Great Lakes region into Monday evening
AccuWeather's Reed Timmer is near Truckee, California following storms dumping snow on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and rain on the burn scar areas from the Camp Fire in Paradise.
As millions of people resume their work and school activities over the central United States, the same storm that brought blizzard conditions into Sunday night will continue to spread snow and slippery travel across the Great Lakes region on Monday.
Snow will continue to fall in the swath from northern and central Indiana to southeastern Michigan into Monday afternoon.
Rain will change to snow farther east across northern and central Ohio to western Pennsylvania and western New York state into Monday evening.
Detroit will be on the southeastern edge of moderate snow. People should expect just enough snow to create slippery conditions downtown with progressively heavier snow north and west from the metro area to the distant suburbs into Monday afternoon.
The combination of increasing winds, heavy snow and poor visibility will continue to create localized blizzard conditions at times along the Interstate-80 corridor, as well as along I-196, and I-94 through Monday afternoon.
As temperatures plummet and snow continues to fall, roads will become icy and snow covered.
This map shows storm total snowfall into Monday midday.
A swath of 6-12 inches with a AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 18 inches has occurred from northeastern Kansas to northern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin.
While the heaviest snow from the storm has already fallen, parts of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, northern Indiana and northeastern Illinois can expect several inches of snow on Monday.
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Conditions will slowly improve around Chicago during Monday afternoon then around Detroit Monday evening. However, as the temperature falls later Monday and Monday night, untreated wet and slushy areas will freeze.
Motorists and pedestrians should be on the lookout for black ice.
On snowy roads on Saturday, a 20-car pileup was reported east bound on I-70 east of Frisco, Colorado. Officials told motorists to expect a lengthy closure.
The storm caused hundreds of flight delays and cancellations at Chicago's O'Hare Airport from Sunday to Monday. Displaced aircraft and crews as well as ongoing rain and snow over part of the interior Northeast may lead to ripple-effect cancellations and flight delays elsewhere across the nation into Tuesday.
Even where snow or ice do not cause major issues on the runways farther east over the Ohio Valley and eastern Great Lakes region, blustery conditions may lead to crosswinds and turbulence. Gusty winds will sweep across the mid-Atlantic corridor during Monday night and Tuesday.
The same storm is forecast to bring mostly rain to the I-95 mid-Atlantic corridor from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia and New York City. However, after rain and spotty ice to start, parts of New England may receive heavy snow during the second part of the storm during Monday night to early Tuesday.
As the storm winds down over the Upper Midwest, bands of lake-effect snow and gusty winds will continue to cause wintry conditions around the Great Lakes region.
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