3-7 inches of snow to fall in metro Detroit

Winter storm warnings continue from parts of northern IL, southern Wisconsin, northern IN and southern Lower MI, including the Quad Cities, Rockford, Milwaukee, Chicago, South Bend and the north and west Detroit suburbs.

The first significant snowstorm of the season created hazardous travel conditions and hundreds of flight delays.

Chicago’s O’Hare global Airport, one of the busiest in the world, had recorded 4 inches of snow by early Saturday with more falling.

“The snow that moved into the Great Lakes on Saturday first spread snow across the central Plains on Friday, near the border of South Dakota and Nebraska into Iowa”, AccuWeather Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.

The first big snow of the season in the Midwest meant many were stranded, including Dorchester native Donnie Heidelberg.

Harvey Wollman, of Sioux Falls, uses a snow blower to clear the sidewalk near his house during the first snow of the season Friday, November 20, 2015, in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Three to six inches could fall in the counties covered by the winter weather advisory by Sunday morning.

In Iowa, Des Moines received 6 inches by late Friday and amounts of a foot or more were common in northern Iowa.

Saturday – Snow this morning will get heavier by this afternoon and into the evening before tapering off overnight.

Weather Service meteorologist Meagan Bird said Indiana’s capital city is expected to get a storm total of 1 to 3 inches of snow.

Once the surface low wraps up in eastern Canada, a few bands of lake-effect snow are possible off Lakes Ontario and Erie, and a little wrap-around snow may blanket the Allegheny Plateau, Appalachians, Adirondacks and high country of northern New England.

Snow will end by afternoon in Iowa and northern Missouri.

Frigid temperatures Saturday night are expected to follow the several inches of snow that felli in DeKalb County by Winter Storm Bella. Six to 10 inches of was expected.

Parts of Iowa, northwest IL and southern Wisconsin could reach below zero, the weather service said. Grand Rapids in western MI had about 3 inches.