Winter Safety and Preparedness

This Is What a Whiteout Looks Like and It’s Scary

New video shows the nightmare conditions snow brought to part of Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon.

A thin, quick-moving lake-effect snow band shifted into Clarion County, Pennsylvania, around 1:30 p.m. ET.

On radar (left) it almost looks harmless.

But in the video above, you realize drivers could barely see one foot ahead of their vehicles.

While this video was shot on what appears to be a two-lane road, this is the same county where whiteout conditions were blamed for a deadly 18-vehicle wreck along Interstate-80 Wednesday. Police were forced to shut down a stretch of the heavily-traveled interstate until late last night in order to clear the accident.

Frightening whiteout conditions like this are possible with more lake-effect snow in the forecast for the region through Friday, particularly around the snow belt east of Lake Erie.

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