{"id":89722,"date":"2026-01-17T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89722\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:44:12","slug":"first-alert-weather-lake-erie-squalls-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89722\/","title":{"rendered":"First Alert Weather: Lake Erie Squalls This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2013 An Arctic airmass will be overspreading the Great Lakes during the first half of the week.\u00a0 This is the perfect receipt for lake effect snow and with a primarily westerly wind, it will be Lake Erie squalls to be watching.\u00a0 The main focus is poor visibility, and accumulating snow which will be found west of Rochester.\u00a0 The immediate Rochester area will see small amounts of snow, but starting with the western suburbs, snowfall will begin to increase.\u00a0 It is likely that communities from Batavia to Buffalo will experience whiteout conditions at times, and this will take place from Sunday night through Wednesday morning.\u00a0 Extensive blowing and drifting in the open areas with the most persistent snow bands bringing accumulations in the range of 10 to 20 inches. Winter storm warnings are in effect for Orleans, Genesee and Wyoming Counties. Needless to say, travel will be very difficult in these areas.\u00a0 The immediate Rochester area will likely see much lighter amounts of snow with accumulations running at only one to three inches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LAKE-SNOW-WARNING-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991770 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Single-Band-Lake-Effect-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991771 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Snow-Accumulation-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991772 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, even if you do not see the heavy snow, everyone will get the windy and bitter cold weather.\u00a0 Monday and Tuesday the wind chill will be near zero and could reach sub-zero at times.\u00a0 The weather will moderate somewhat later Wednesday, but another blast of arctic air is likely later Thursday and continuing into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2024_Headlines-GJ-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991773 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Threat-Tracker-5-Day-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991774 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meteogram_Daily-High_7-Days-11-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991775 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5-to-10-Day-Forecast-PM-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991776 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to News10NBC First Alert weather for updates on the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/bitter-cold\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bitter Cold<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/lake-erie-squalls\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Erie Squalls<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/first-alert-weather\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Alert Weather<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2013 An Arctic airmass will be overspreading the Great Lakes during the first half of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29997,136,138,137,7554,44420],"class_list":{"0":"post-89722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-bitter-cold","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-first-alert-weather","13":"tag-lake-erie-squalls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89722","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=89722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}