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Expect icy conditions to follow today.
Temperatures will drop into the single digits Tuesday night.
Separate snowstorms are expected to bring ice and snow to areas of Pennsylvania on Monday into Tuesday afternoon and later this week, according to the National Weather Service. But as of Tuesday evening, inch counts in the Erie region are lower than expected.
A massive low-pressure winter storm system dumped snow from Texas and the Southern plains to Maine on Monday and Tuesday, but produced far less snow totals in the Erie region.
As of 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, only 1.3 inches of snow had fallen at Erie International Airport. Erie recorded 2.1 inches of snow at the airport on Monday.
You will need a show shovel or an ice pick to get rolling this morning and likely a heaping dose of determination. But many will stay home: Mahoning and T
Jim Casella has been a private snowplow driver for more than 20 years and relies on nature s flakes to help make a winter living.
An ideal winter for Casella, 38, owner of Erie-based Liberty Snow Service, 1527 Liberty St., is one in which the Erie region is blanketed by 3 inches of powdery stuff most days.
As for this winter? It s been so-so, Casella said. It s been OK. We ll make do.
With the exception of two significant lake-effect snowstorms, the Erie region has encountered a relatively mild winter season.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, are calling for La Nina weather patterns to continue to impact Erie region weather for the remainder of winter.