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NWS Issues Local Winter Storm Alerts in MI and PA Ahead of New Year’s Eve Squalls

Motorists should expect sudden whiteouts from midnight snow squalls.

Overview

  • The National Weather Service placed Chippewa County, Michigan, under a winter storm warning through 7 p.m. Wednesday, forecasting 4–8 inches of snow with locally higher totals over 10 inches and gusts near 40 mph.
  • Somerset County, Pennsylvania, is under a winter storm warning from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 10 a.m. Thursday with over 6 inches possible on the western ridges and wind gusts up to 40 mph.
  • Potter and Cameron counties, Pennsylvania, are under a winter weather advisory from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 4 p.m. Thursday with 1–3 inches of accumulation expected.
  • Forecasters anticipate a line of snow showers and squalls around or shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, advising drivers to delay travel or exit highways if a Snow Squall Warning is issued.
  • Officials warn that roads, especially bridges and overpasses, will become slick and that drivers should slow down, prepare for rapidly changing visibility in lake-effect bands, and keep emergency supplies in vehicles.