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Midweek Heavy Snow & Lake Effect Snow for Great Lakes States

26 Feb 2020, 4:25 am

Great Lakes System

Winter Alerts

Winter Weather Advisories are in place on Wednesday from Missouri up into Michigan for both snow accumulation and gusty winds.  There are also Winter Storm Watches for parts of northeast Ohio into northwest Pennsylvania ahead of the next approaching system.

Impacts

Widespread winter weather impacts are expected in these areas with the highest impacts from just outside of Cleveland, OH along the lakefront to Buffalo, NY.

Forecast

Heavy snow will continue through the day on Wednesday.  If you have to travel through any of these areas, expect major delays on the roads and at the airports.  Keep checking with WeatherNation for more updates on the heavy snow chances.

About the author
Meredith Garofalo
Meredith is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist as designated by the American Meteorological Society.  She was born and raised in Cleveland but has worked from coast to coast covering almost every type of weather.  She's been live out in the field during destructive tropical storms on the Gulf Coast of Florida, raging wildfires in Southern California, and covered the wreckage from tornadoes in t... Load Morehe Great Plains. In 2009, she reported on the damaging hail storm during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and in 2017, the historic California winter storms that produced record rain totals and devastating flash flooding.  Prior to joining WeatherNation, Meredith worked at KEYT/KKFX in Santa Barbara, CA, KOTA-TV in Rapid City, SD, WWSB-TV in Sarasota, FL, and began her career as an intern at WGN-TV in Chicago.  She was Santa Barbara's "Favorite Weathercaster of the Year" in 2016 and the Community Partner of the Year in 2017 for her volunteer work with Make-A-Wish Tri-Counties and awarded with the 2018 Valparaiso University Alumni Association First Decade Achievement Award. Meredith co-chairs the American Meteorological Society Station Scientist Committee, which focuses on raising greater awareness & outreach when it comes to science education for viewers.  She's also an accomplished reporter, producing weather and science stories including rocket launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base and the new GOES-16 satellite and it's impacts on weather forecasting.  Meredith's also worked on features that took her paragliding along the coast, white water rafting in Northern California, learning to surf in the Pacific Ocean, and how to be an aerial photographer while flying a single engine plane!

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