A Parade Of Snowy Systems Will Continue To Bring Snow, Wind And Extreme Cold Across The East Into Upcoming Week

Lake-Effect Snow Expected Through Wednesday

Winter has been on hiatus across large sections of the country, but the Great Lakes would like a refund on its winter. The storm train continues to chug from the Upper Midwest to the interior Northeast, and there's no slowing it down in the near future.

Not only snow, but Arctic air will surge southward as well, causing temperatures to dive across the eastern half of the country. This, along with strong winds, will create dangerous wind chills for millions.

And yet another storm system will bring more snow to the same, snow-exhausted people beginning Tuesday.

Through Early Sunday

A double whammy is expected in the Northeast. The first storm has caused flight delays and even some cancellations across the major metropolitan cities on the Interstate-95 corridor.

Snow reports over an inch have occurred across parts of the I-95 corridor, which could make for messy driving conditions. The cities are likely to be on the rain/snow line, meaning light, slushy accumulations are possible. Over 6 inches of snow is possible locally just inland of the urban corridor.

Snowfall will wrap up for the major cities through the day as the line of snow showers shifts to the northeast through the region.

Snow squalls are not out of the question through early Sunday across parts of Great Lakes and interior Northeast as some of the bands producing snowfall can be heavy at times. These bands of localized, heavy snow, along with gusty winds, could make travel conditions dangerous for motorists.

Next Round: Sunday

Mother Nature isn’t finished yet! Towards the end of the weekend, a pair of systems will once again reinforce those chilly temperatures and bring another round of fresh snow for yet again, the Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast.

One of the systems will pivot from central Canada across the Great Lakes and back into eastern Canada on Sunday and Monday. It will bring generally lighter totals outside of the favored snowbelts around the Great Lakes. South and east of Lakes Superior, Michigan and Erie, snowfall totals may be in the neighborhood of 12-18 inches locally.

The second whammy for the Northeast will come from the Southeast, then develop into a coastal low just off the East Coast just a day after the first one. This storm won't be strong enough to produce heavy snow, but at least flakes are likely from parts of north Florida to southern New England.

New York City and Boston could see 2-4 inches, which is helpful to combating the snow deficits both cities are currently enduring.

A couple of inches of new snow are likely from Washington, D.C., to eastern Maine.

Polar Plunge Into Upcoming Week

Confidence is high that temperatures will tumble. Not only will temperatures plummet, but strong winds behind the cold front will send wind chills to dangerous levels for some locations. We could be talking about wind chills as low as 20-35 degrees below zero for portions of the Northern Plains. Even places like Pittsburgh and New York will experience wind chills in the single digits and below zero.

More Snow Ahead In The Upcoming Week

For those of you in these areas who don't like snow, I am afraid I have some bad news.

Along with the bitter cold temperatures, we have yet another storm system that will move through the region, bringing more of the same.

By Tuesday, the new storm will begin to impact the Northern Plains, where snow will begin to fall.

For Tuesday night, the snow will shift to the Upper Midwest, including Minneapolis, and will also enhance more lake-effect snow for the western Great Lakes.

The entirety of the Great Lakes will see snowfall Wednesday, with snowfall spreading to the Appalachian Mountains and parts of northern New England by the evening.

The areas hit by the strongest bands of lake-effect snow could see an additional 2-4 feet of snowfall.

The higher elevations of the Appalachians could also pick up more than a foot of snow in some places.

Jennifer Gray is a weather and climate writer for weather.com. She has been covering some of the world's biggest weather and climate stories for the last two decades.