Multiple rounds of snow causing travel problems from the Great Lakes into the Northeast

Snow and gusty winds led to major travel issues on Dec. 29, but there's still more wintry weather to come across the region.

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00:00Let's start off with the alerts because this gives you an idea of what the concerns are,

00:03what are the impacts. It's wind and snow, spoiler alert. We take a look, we have lake effect snow

00:09warnings, we have winter weather advisories in the gray, the darker blue, those are winter storm

00:14warnings, and then all of these tan polygons, that is high wind warning. So wind, snow, bad

00:21combination. We talked about the blizzards, we could see snow swell conditions as well, a little

00:26bit of a difference there. I know we've been explaining in some more shorter segments tonight

00:30the difference between those, but blowing snow is the headline here. Now the core of the storm system

00:35up into Canada as this moves into the northeast, one of the reasons that we have additional

00:41precipitation behind the cold front that we saw with the rain and the freezing rain. We have had

00:47freezing rain reports into places like Albany, New York, so bad combination, ice with snow on top,

00:52and then there's the wind of course causing power outages, but not just power outages.

00:56We've seen a lot of damage as well. I mentioned in the Buffalo area, a lot of trees down reported,

01:01a lot of even like roof damage from some of the storm reports. We're seeing the kind of damage

01:06you see with a severe thunderstorm warning, we still have the thunderstorm to go with it. It's

01:10a different system with that strength of wind. Power outages are slowly but surely being resolved

01:15though. Jeff talked a lot about Michigan, New York, you're moving in the right direction,

01:1940,000 plus customers without power, but at one point we were well above 50,000 customers without power.

01:24So things moving in the right direction, but I know if you don't have power, it's not moving

01:28quickly enough. Current wind gusts at this point, Buffalo, we certainly are seeing improvement. We're

01:33at 45 miles per hour when we've had 60 plus mile per hour gusts there and in Pittsburgh as well,

01:39down to 33 mile per hour gusts there. Still at 26 in New York, we're at 22 about an hour, hour and a

01:45half ago. The point is here, we've seen flight delays also from all of this. That's the other impact,

01:50horrible timing, I know, because a lot of people traveling this week. It continues into tomorrow,

01:55unfortunately. Along the coast, 40 to 50 mile per hour gusts worse in Cleveland as we move forward

02:00here, so expect power outages, the damage, the flight delays all to continue as we head through

02:04tomorrow. Now let's talk about the snow because we're going to get two rounds of snow, so to speak,

02:09behind this system actually moving off into the ocean. We have lake effect snow that lingers behind,

02:15but then we also have a couple clippers that are going to bring some snow as well. You know,

02:19Jeff talks a little bit about this into the north central, but let's focus in on the northeast with

02:22future radar and clouds. Here's the lake effect snow showers lingering behind Tuesday. Our first

02:27clipper moves through widespread snow to Michigan to western Pennsylvania. Then there's a second one

02:32Wednesday, this one more southern and a little bit more widespread. The Ohio Valley through western

02:38New York, western Pennsylvania, you're going to see widespread snow as well. As far as our totals,

02:42most of us one to three, but downwind of the lakes, we're talking a foot plus of snow possible.