Millions of Americans are heading home from the Thanksgiving holiday with 6 million people under winter alerts and parts of Pennsylvania and New York are slammed with lake effect snow. NBC News' Tom Costello has the latest.
An Arctic blast gripped the northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes Saturday morning, with millions of Americans under freeze warnings. Six million people were under winter alerts Friday from northern Minnesota into upstate New York, as snowfall totals downwind of lakes Erie and Ontario were expected to reach 3 feet or more. The National Weather Service warned that the Arctic airmass is delivering the coldest temperatures since last winter.
The interstate was closed in Pennsylvania late Friday afternoon, between interstate 79 to the New York state line, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, of New York, said during a news conference. Other possibly affected thoroughfares include Interstate 81, north of Syracuse, New York. The National Weather Service said Friday that travel 'could be very difficult to impossible' in spots downwind of the Great Lakes.
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