{"id":74628,"date":"2025-12-31T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74628\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:03:16","slug":"lake-effect-snow-to-ring-in-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74628\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake effect snow to ring in new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/talkerie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/PIBayJan2025.jpg\" data-caption=\"Presque Isle Bay, Erie, PA, Jan. 8, 2025. Photo by Joel Natalie, TalkErie.com.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PIBayJan2025-640x427.jpg\"   alt=\"Presque Isle Bay\" title=\"PIBayJan2025\"\/><\/a>Presque Isle Bay, Erie, PA, Jan. 8, 2025. Photo by Joel Natalie, TalkErie.com.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is predicting heavy lake effect snow now into through Thursday, while PennDOT has reduced speed limits on Erie County interstates.<\/p>\n<p>NWS Warning: \u2026LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THURSDAY\u2026<\/p>\n<p>* WHAT\u2026Heavy lake effect snow. Additional snow accumulations between 8 and 15 inches with isolated higher amounts in excess of<br \/>20 inches across higher terrain of southern Erie County. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.<\/p>\n<p>* WHERE\u2026Crawford, Northern Erie, and Southern Erie Counties.<\/p>\n<p>* WHEN\u2026Until 7 PM EST Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>* IMPACTS\u2026Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The hazardous conditions will impact holiday travel.<\/p>\n<p>* ADDITIONAL DETAILS\u2026The heaviest lake effect snow will persist near the lakeshore through this morning. Another period of heavy lake effect snow will arrive this afternoon and overnight, impacting the entire area. Snowfall rates may reach 1 to 2 inches per hour at times this evening.<\/p>\n<p>PRECAUTIONARY\/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS\u2026If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in your vehicle in case of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission strongly encourage motorists to heed all travel<br \/>restrictions and delay unnecessary travel. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.511pa.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.511pa.com<\/a> for the latest travel, roadway, and traffic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>From PennDOT: 45 MPH Speed Restriction with (CMV\u2019s Right Lane Only) is ACTIVE for the following routes \u2013 I-79 from Exit 141 to PA-5, I-86 and I-90<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presque Isle Bay, Erie, PA, Jan. 8, 2025. Photo by Joel Natalie, TalkErie.com. The National Weather Service is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-74628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}