United States: As per the latest reports, some of the first snow of the season is hitting parts of the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast to wind up the week as the pattern change brings November’s cold to Texas and Florida.
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Current conditions indicate that an area of low pressure certainly has been formed, and it is most powerful in the Great Lakes district.
This storm could sit and spin through Friday or Saturday with high winds, raw cold air, and rain or wet snow.
Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis are some of the places that experienced the first snowstorms of the season on Thursday.
The National Weather Service has, in turn, published different winter weather advisories for snow from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians and interior Northeast, weather.com reported.
In general, any snow that falls in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley will do so through Thursday night, it added.
How much snow is expected?
Any that falls in the East will do so from later Thursday into Friday night or Saturday.
The experts suggest that there is not much indication of intense accumulation of snowfalls. But stations from the higher terrain of Appalachians in the Western part of Virginia up to the Southwestern part of Pennsylvania and including the Pocono, Catskill, and Adirondack ranges could get six inches of wet, deep snow.
The amount of snow plus wind can cause tree downing and power outages in places where this occurred.
Otherwise, some lighter vacuums of a few inches of slushy precipitation are expected from the Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley and lower elevations of the interior Northeast, weather.com reported.
These will mostly be on the grassy surfaces and car hoods or roofs, although if the snow arrives in a flurry or as a shower, some bridges and unplowed roads might be whitened.