Winter won’t officially start until Dec. 21, but you won’t know it by the Thanksgiving Day weather conditions in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Erie and Crawford counties remain under a lake-effect snow warning until Saturday, Nov. 29, at 1 a.m., and northern Erie County has a wind advisory in place until Friday, Nov. 28, at 1 a.m. Total snowfall could measure 20 inches in the most severely affected locations, and visibility could be limited to a quarter-mile at times by whiteout conditions.
Here is the forecast for Erie and Crawford counties from the National Weather Service in Cleveland as of 3:04 a.m. Thanksgiving Day:
Lake-effect snow in Erie, Crawford counties
The area’s second snowfall event of the fall is expected to produce heavy lake-effect snow with total snow accumulations between 8 inches and 20 inches. The greatest snowfall is likeliest south of Interstate 90 in Erie County and across the northern edge of Crawford County. That’s because snow that started over Lake Erie and fell on the northern tier of Erie County is moving south and inland on Thanksgiving while also increasing in intensity into Thanksgiving night. Snowfall rates at peak could be an inch to 2 inches per hour in some places…