Winter weather advisories and warnings have been issued for parts of the Pittsburgh area. Maps show projected snowfall totals.
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Winter weather advisories and storm warnings been issued for parts of the Pittsburgh area with heavy snowfall expected to arrive in western Pennsylvania over the next several days.
Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings will be in effect starting Wednesday and will be in place until Friday for Mercer, Venango, Clarion, and Jefferson counties as well as the eastern parts of Indiana, Westmoreland, and Fayette counties.
Watches are issued when wintry weather is expected to be impactful for an area.
An Alberta Clipper will "clip" our area Wednesday night into Thursday morning. This will drop 1-2" for much of the region.
The snow with this disturbance will be widespread and pretty even.
Most of this snow is expected to be wrapping up by sunrise on Thursday.
Hopefully, road crews will have the roads in shape by commute time, but these clippers drop snow quickly, and some lingering effects may be around for the morning commute.
It would be best to plan on some extra time.
Where the snow accumulation differences will occur is with the lake effect snow in the wake of this clipper.
As this system pushes eastward, the cold winds will start to blow over the warmer Great Lakes, setting up lake effect snow bands.
Where bands set up, additional accumulations are likely through the day Thursday into Friday morning.
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