Rain, which begins as a steady downpour in Pennsylvania, gradually transforms into snowflakes as it travels northward into the northeastern part of the country. This transformation is part of yet another winter storm system sweeping through the region. It seems as though we've been caught in an unending cycle of storms, where rain frequently falls over existing snow, leading to slushy, treacherous conditions. In some instances, the precipitation creates a chaotic blend of rain, sleet, and snow, making travel and daily activities challenging. Astonishingly, some of these areas have already accu[…]

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Here's your two-minute winter weather forecast brought to you by Winter Walking. All right, we have mostly rain right now, but there is snow that's going to fall across parts of the northern plains states all the way up into the northeastern part of the country today, generally one to four inches, coding to an inch back here with the snow showers. And then behind that system, this system here, Another one's coming up, which is going to, it's actually back in here, which is actually going to bring some wet snow on Wednesday, which could be a bigger snowstorm. And then there's another one behind[…]

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Here's your two minute winter weather forecast. We have a little clipper coming down through Iowa into Illinois this morning with light snow. The lake effects snow has been very, very heavy around Erie, up through western New York and also all the way up to off of Lake Ontario. Lake Superior and through the northern parts of Lake Michigan. And more lake effect snow are coming heavy snow at that coming up this week with these clippers coming through in this cold air just continues to pour through rest of the country in pretty good shape. This morning you can see that little clipper coming throu[…]

Here's today's two-minute winter weather forecast brought to you by Winter Walking. In fact, you know, the one thing we're going to talk about is that the next two to three weeks are going to be very cold across the eastern part of the country. There's some shockingly cold air coming. You know, this winter is really... different than what we've seen in many many years that's that's for sure. We also have snow right now coming across northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, northern Michigan that's good head over toward Ontario and Quebec. And we have mountain snows going on out here. Some highe[…]