Great Lakes area gets snow

CONSTABLEVILLE, N.Y. – A blast of cold wind spread snow along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York on Monday, dumping 2 feet on this central New York town.

“It’s strange to have a snow day before Thanksgiving,” said Dorothy Valenti, Constableville librarian.

Moisture from the lakes produced lake-effect snow on the eastern and southern shores.

The deepest was in this snow-prone section of New York, where the National Weather Service said 24 inches had fallen at Constableville, at the east end of Lake Ontario. In western New York, moisture from Lake Erie had turned into 23 inches by midmorning at Ellicottville, south of Buffalo.

In Pennsylvania, Erie reported as much as 14 inches of snow Monday. More than a foot had fallen in parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Up to a foot of snow was forecast by today in northern Indiana, with 10 inches possible in Ohio’s Cleveland area.