Area residents dig out stranded and buried cars after a record snowfall left over 3 feet on the bottom on December 2, 2024 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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A recent Arctic blast is about to dump more snow onto the Great Lakes and the Northeast, as winter weather caused transport chaos and left 1000’s stranded.
Lake-effect snow remains to be affecting areas downwind of Lake Erie after several punishing days of winter weather and is anticipated to last through Wednesday.
And the weather will proceed with gusto this week: A powerful clipper storm — a system that forms in Canada and moves across the Great Lakes into the US — is about to maneuver in from Quebec on Thursday, bringing heavy snow to Michigan, the National Weather Service said.
Some 5 million persons are under winter weather and lake-effect snow warnings across the Great Lakes for Tuesday — including South Bend, Indiana; Muskegon, Michigan; Cleveland; Erie, Pennsylvania, and Syracuse, Recent York.
By Wednesday, the clipper weather system should bring snow to the inside Northeast and Recent England, while intensifying snowfall in areas downwind of the Great Lakes. NBC meteorologist Michelle Grossman said early Tuesday that some areas could get 12 inches of snow.
Other areas are feeling with freeze, with temperatures 10 to fifteen degrees below seasonal averages in parts of the Ohio Valley, the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.
In Pennsylvania, homes and vehicles were buried in greater than 5 feet of snow, with chaos on the roads.
Police responded to a crash Monday afternoon on Interstate 94, near Hartford, Van Buren County, involving 14 passenger vehicles and three semi-trucks, with one driver suffering critical injuries, Michigan State Police said in a press release.
The snowstorm blankets northwestern Pennsylvania and upstate Recent York and put Erie International Airport under a snow emergency in Erie, PA, United States on December 02, 2024.
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Aerial views showed a protracted tailback because the snow continued to fall.
In Erie, Pennsylvania, drivers were pictured on social media digging their cars and driveways out of greater than a foot of snow. One video shows a driver in Erie attempting to maneuver a vehicle with several feet of snow on the windshield. A parking zone in Erie County showed dozens of cars buried under a lot snow that they might not be seen.
Erie Police responded to 92 cases of streets blocked by abandoned cars Monday and urged motorists to remain off the roads.
“Should you get stuck, don’t just leave it. Make contact with someone that may aid you get it out. We’re overwhelmed, the tow corporations are overwhelmed, that is why we’re taking a look at 92 cases today and we’re into the fourth day of this,” Erie Police Chief Daniel Spizarny told NBC affiliate WICU of Erie.
WICU of Erie reported that the load of snow on a livestock barn’s roof caused it to collapse at a farm within the town of Arkwright, Recent York, on Monday, killing five cows and injuring 100 others. A lake-effect snow warning is in effect across the world until 7 p.m. ET Tuesday.
