Around 55 million people are under winter weather alerts across the northern Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast and Southeast from two separate systems.

Snow began early Sunday and could last the remainder of the day. Once that clears, it’s a bitter cold week ahead.

The first of this weekend's two rounds of snow blanketed the Tri-State Area on Saturday. Overnight, clouds remained in place, and with lows ranging from the mid 20s to low 30s, refreezing of any melted snow on roadways and sidewalks was certainly possible.

Around 55 million people across the eastern half of the country were under winter weather alerts as a cold, snowy and windy holiday weekend is expected.

Notice the colder air building for Sunday in the western Upper Peninsula. This will be the Arctic cold that invades lower Michigan Sunday night and Monday. It looks like the weekend won’t have terrible road conditions, but also not perfectly dry road conditions. We can also consider this weekend “balmy” compared to what is coming next week.

Cold weather will finish out our week. Two weak weather systems this weekend will bring risk of rain & snow showers