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The storm that is coming through is a part of a national weather event that hit the midwestern states Monday morning.
The heaviest snow will fall from 10 pm Monday evening through 7 am Tuesday morning with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour likely, according to the National Weather Service.
Credit National Weather Service The warning says heavy snows are expected with a total accumulation of 7 to 14 inches by 1 pm Tuesday across Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Monroe and northern Erie counties. Travel will be very difficult with deep snow cover on roads and very poor visibility. The hazardous conditions will significantly impact the Tuesday morning commute, the warning says.
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The heaviest snow will fall from 10 pm Monday evening through 7 am Tuesday morning with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour likely, according to the National Weather Service.
The warning says heavy snows are expected with a total accumulation of 7 to 14 inches by 1 pm Tuesday across Niagara, Orleans, Genesee, Monroe and northern Erie counties. Travel will be very difficult with deep snow cover on roads and very poor visibility. The hazardous conditions will significantly impact the Tuesday morning commute, the warning says.
.The heaviest snow will fall from 10 pm Monday evening through 7 am Tuesday morning with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour likely, according to the National Weather Service
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Siouxland is under a Wind Chill Warning until Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. The National Weather Service says expect dangerously cold wind chills of up to 40-below overnight.
Last night’s weather set records across the region. Sioux City did as well, with a low temperature of -28.
Nebraska also saw a number of low-temperature records broken and expected more to fall Tuesday as a polar vortex pushed Arctic air into the Plains. Temperatures are expected to be below normal for almost a week.
Frigid weather that has sent temperatures plunging across Middle America also has power and gas utilities urging customers to dial down the thermostat through Wednesday. Utility companies serving Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri issued the plea yesterday and today for customers to conserve power as temperatures dropped to nearly 30 below in parts of western and northern Nebraska early Monday, sending the wind chill to as low as nearly 50 below in some places.
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The National Weather Service is calling for less snow than previously forecasted across the Pittsburgh region Monday evening, but more ice. Starting at 5 p.m., the city can expect to see snowfall totaling one to two inches; considerably less than the previously forecasted six to eight inches. Rising temperatures will turn much of the projected precipitation to freezing rain by late evening.
National Weather Service models now show as much as a quarter of an inch of ice in the forecast, something acting Pittsburgh Public Works director Chris Hornstein said can be trickier for crews to treat. He tells WESA’s