After winter weather left hundreds stranded and caused transportation mayhem, a fresh Arctic blast of winter weather is expected to drop more snow on the Great Lakes and Northeast.
After several harsh days of winter weather, lake effect snow is still impacting locations downwind of Lake Erie and is predicted to continue until Wednesday.
And this week, winter will be here to stay: According to the National Weather Service, a powerful clipper storm—a weather system that originates in Canada and crosses the Great Lakes into the United States—is expected to approach from Quebec on Thursday, bringing with it a lot of snow to Michigan.
On Tuesday, there are lake effect snow warnings and winter weather for almost 5 million people throughout the Great Lakes, including South Bend, Indiana; Muskegon, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Syracuse, New York.
The clipper weather system is expected to intensify snowfall in regions downwind of the Great Lakes and bring snow to the interior Northeast and New England by Wednesday. Early on Tuesday, Michelle Grossman, an NBC meteorologist, warned that some places would receive up to 12 inches of snow.
Other regions are seeing freezing temperatures, with parts of the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast experiencing temperatures 10 to 15 degrees below seasonal averages.
More than five feet of snow covered houses and cars in Pennsylvania, and the roadways were in disarray.
According to a statement from Michigan State Police, 14 passenger cars and three semi-trucks were involved in a collision on the Interstate 94 near Hartford, Van Buren County, on Monday afternoon. One driver was critically injured.
As the snow continued to fall, aerial pictures revealed a lengthy tailback.
Social media users shared pictures of drivers in Erie, Pennsylvania, excavating their driveways and automobiles out of over a foot of snow.In one video, a driver in Erie is seen trying to maneuver their car while the windshield is covered in several feet of snow. Dozens of cars were buried so deep in the snow that they were no longer visible in an Erie County parking lot.
On Monday, Erie Police asked drivers to avoid the roadways after responding to 92 reports of streets blocked by abandoned cars.
“Don’t just abandon it if you get stuck. Get in touch with someone who can assist you with releasing it. “We’re looking at 92 cases today and we’re into the fourth day of this because we’re overwhelmed, and the tow companies are overwhelmed,” Erie Police Chief Daniel Spizarny told NBC affiliate WICU of Erie.
At a farm in the town of Arkwright, New York, the weight of snow caused the roof of a cattle barn to fall on Monday, killing five cows and injuring 100 more, according to the WICU of Erie. The region is under a lake effect snow warning through Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET.
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