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Forecast: Warnings, Advisories up for accumulating snow

Cleveland forecast from the Power of 5 weather team

By: Mark Johnson , Trent Magill , Katie McGraw , Phil Sakal

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A WINTER STORM WARNING for Lake, Ashtabula Geauga Counties will be in effect from 1 a.m. Friday until 10 p.m. EST Saturday. A Winter Storm Warning is also in effect for Erie, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Huron, Medina, and Summit counties but will expire much earlier. It is set to expire at 4 am EST Saturday morning. These counties are in pink in the graphic below.

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY is in effect for every other community/county in our viewing area. It will be in effect from 10 pm tonight through Friday night. The advisory includes the cities of Port Clinton, Oak Harbor, Fremont, Tiffin, Upper Sandusky, Bucyrus, Mansfield, Ashland, Wooster, Orrville, Rittman, Marion, Millersburg, and Killbuck.

An unusually strong Alberta Clipper storm system will slide across Northern Ohio tonight and early Friday. It will combine forces with another weather disturbance along the Ohio River and pick up added moisture from a wide-open Lake Erie. Steady and widespread moderate to briefly heavy snow will begin Thursday night and linger through Friday morning across Northern Ohio before transitioning to Lake effect snow Friday afternoon through Saturday. Snow totals will generally be in the 3 to 6-inch range, with a few spots in the primary and secondary snow belts measuring closer to 6-10 inches through Saturday. Expect snowy and slippery travel for the Friday AM and PM rush hours. Allow extra time to get where you need to go!

We're not expected to make it back above 32º until early next week, but we should warm up quickly! The 40s look possible by early next week, with rain chances returning.

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