Biggest winter storm of season takes aim at Northeast, threatening foot of snow

Friday, December 13, 2013

Biggest winter storm of season takes aim at Northeast, threatening foot of snow

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Snow falls in Sandy Creek, N.Y., Friday morning.

There's a travel mess ahead from the Midwest to New England where some areas will see up to eight inches of snow. Meteorologist Janice Huff reports.

By Henry Austin and Erin McClam, NBC News

The Northeast braced Friday for a fierce winter storm that threatened to dump a foot of snow on some places and coat New York and Boston over the weekend with their biggest accumulations of the season.
Lake-effect snow whipped Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., and Erie, Pa., on Friday morning, and 5 to 8 inches of snow was expected to fall on parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio from Friday evening into Saturday. Indianapolis was expected to get as much as 5 inches.
Freezing rain and sleet were expected to cause problems Friday in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, slickening bridges and overpasses.
The National Weather Service called the whole thing a “complex storm system” stretching from Missouri to the northern tip of New York.

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Snow falls in Sandy Creek, N.Y., Friday morning.

Metro-North, the commuter railroad that serves New York, its suburbs, Connecticut and Long Island, warned customers that it might reduce or stop service depending on the weather.
Pennsylvania pushed two state high school football championship games back by a day, to Sunday from Saturday. And Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for Logan airport, in Boston, told The Associated Press: “At some point, we’ll start calling in more staff.”