More than 3 feet of snow has already been reported to the NWS across parts of Ashtabula County. Totals in the warned counties range from 5 inches to 39 inches. Lake-effect in a nutshell! Meanwhile, the rest of NEO has seen minimal or no snow since Thanksgiving.

From Minnesota to Texas, temperatures were expected to drop by double-digits as cold air swept over the record-warm Great Lakes, bringing the season's first lake effect snowfall. Common in the winter in this region of the US and Canada, lake effect snow occurs when very cold air moves across the relatively warm water of the lakes.

Parts of northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula are getting buried under snow reportedly as deep as 12 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Marquette. Meteorologists are receiving scattered reports of between 5-7 inches to up to 12 inches in some areas,