Cold & Snow Highlight the Beginning of the New Year.

Forecasted snowfall totals up until Wednesday morning. 
Locally higher amounts are possible.
CrawfordWeather.com

A new year begins pretty soon so it is time to put all that warm winter weather behind us.  Winter will make its first real appearance in a few days bringing chilly arctic air and some lake effect snow.


A strong low pressure system is expected to strengthen and  roll through the area Sunday and Sunday night.  Some light snow showers are expected Sunday but the real mess starts Sunday night as our area will be on the back side of the low.  The strong low will bring down some very chilly arctic air (coldest of the season) and this combined with a Northwesterly wind flow and an unfrozen lake (39°F Water Temp) will create a perfect Lake Effect situation for our area.  The cold air and northwest flow looks like it will stay around until Tuesday night so a good amount of snow could pile up between Sunday & Tuesday night.  Snowfall totals are hard to predict right now but as the days get closer we'll get a better picture of how much will fall.  Time to get the snow shovels out folks...winter was just running a little late.