A Parade of Snowy Systems This Week Is Bringing Snow, Wind and Extreme Cold Across the East

Winter’s snow machine continues for the Northeast and Great Lakes this week as a series of systems pulls across the region. Not only snow, but Arctic air will surge southward as well, causing temperatures to dive across the eastern half of the country. This, along with strong winds, will create dangerous wind chills for millions.

The first system is moving through the East with snow and wind being most impactful in the Great Lakes. It will bring lingering snow into the interior portions of New England on Thursday while most of the rest of the East will be dry, but cold.

The heaviest snow will be downwind of the Great Lakes and into adjacent Ontario. Totals will surpass 5 inches along lakes Erie and Ontario from Cleveland to northern New York. The higher terrain in the Appalachians, above 3,000 feet, will pick up several inches of new snow. And more snow will add to these totals later in the week.

The next round of snow will arrive in the Midwest and Great Lakes on Thursday before pushing eastward. Many of the same areas that see snow from the first system would receive snow from this one, adding to those snow totals. Snow is expected to linger across portions of the Northeast through Sunday.

Not only will temperatures plummet, but strong winds behind the cold front will send wind chills to dangerous levels for some locations. We could be talking about wind chills as low as 20-35 degrees below zero for portions of the Northern Plains. Even places like Pittsburgh and New York will experience wind chills in the teens and single digits.