Overview
- - Blizzard, winter storm and lake-effect warnings remain across parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes, with NWS Marquette urging the U.P. to avoid travel on Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day.
- - Wind advisories cover large swaths of the Midwest, where frequent gusts of 50 to 60 mph are expected to make driving difficult and could trigger scattered power outages.
- - The departing system already caused major disruption, including more than 250 crashes and a temporary I-29 shutdown from Fargo, ND, to Watertown, SD, while airports report growing delays.
- - Lake-effect snow is ramping up with highly localized extremes, including 2 to 3 feet possible in northern Michigan and up to 20 inches downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario.
- - The Weather Prediction Center highlights a weekend storm forming over the Rockies and moving into the Plains and Upper Midwest, with widespread accumulating snow possible and a subsequent surge of Arctic cold into early December.