Key Highlights
- The National Weather Service (NWS) says the system will intensify over the next few days and conditions are expected through Tuesday.
- "Arctic air will descend into the Plains beginning Sunday followed by a potent winter storm across the upper Midwest to the Great Lakes Sunday night to Monday," according to a bulletin from the NWS posted on Saturday.
- Weather Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center Heavy snow and whiteout conditions are forecasted across parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, causing "treacherous travel," the NWS said.
- More than a foot of snow could fall along Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
- Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania are expected to receive lake-effect snow.
