CBS New York meteorologist John Elliott said 'very intense snow' will hit communities along the Great Lakes, Plans and Midwest regions as upwards of 6 feet of snow is forecast.
The first big snowstorm of the season is threatening to bury New York towns along lakes Erie and Ontario during a hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend.An Arctic outbreak of cold air will expand south and east and bring 'dangerously cold wind chills' into the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, the National Weather Service said Saturday, while heavy lake-effect snow could make travel 'very difficult to impossible' into next week.
Lake-effect snow happens when warm moist air rising from a body of water mixes with cold dry air overhead.'The lake is 50 degrees We're about six degrees above where we should be this time of year, that's why we're seeing these heavy lake-effect events,' Erie County Public Works Commissioner William Geary said. 'The outlook for the next two weeks into December, we'll probably see some more.'New York Gov.
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