DETROIT (AP) — It’s that time of year — again — when cold air sweeps across the Great Lakes region, dropping huge amounts of lake-effect snow from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula into Western New York.

Snow has already started falling Wednesday in and around Houghton, Michigan, and is expected to continue through Thanksgiving and into the weekend. A blizzard warning is in effect through Thursday morning in the Keweenaw Peninsula where Houghton is located, according to the National Weather Service.

“The system coming through is producing some snow,” said Steve Considine, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Michigan’s White Lake Township northwest of Detroit. “Most is enhanced off the Great Lakes — snowbelt areas. That’s where they are looking at the big snowfall.”

The western

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