Overview
- More than 105 million people are under National Weather Service advisories, watches or warnings for freezing conditions, winter weather and lake-effect snow across the eastern two-thirds of the nation.
- Great Lakes snowbelts face hazardous travel from intense bands and squalls, with gusts near 30–35 mph and localized totals up to about 18 inches reported or forecast in parts of Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan.
- Freeze watches and warnings stretch from the Lower Mississippi Valley into the Southeast, including Florida, with record lows possible in Birmingham, Tupelo, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville.
- Snow and flurries are spreading from the Great Lakes into the Ohio Valley, Appalachians and northern New England, with forecast pockets such as Erie County, Pennsylvania at 6–11 inches and 4–6 inches near Albion and Rochester, New York.
- The cold front that pushed through late Sunday sets up the coldest window Monday–Tuesday with wind chills in the teens and low 20s, followed by drier weather and a temperature rebound beginning midweek.