Thanksgiving travel could be snarled across the Great Lakes Snowbelts beginning Wednesday and lasting through Thanksgiving Day and into Black Friday.

Forecasters warn motorists that snow will pile up this week around the Great Lakes, with effects ranging from snow-clogged roads to downed trees and power outages.

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,

Two winter systems are coming together across the northern U.S. this week, bringing the potential for heavy snow and strong winds across the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest.

Indianapolis will head into the Thanksgiving holiday under much colder and windier conditions following a deep storm moving through the Great Lakes.

Lake-effect snow is in the forecast for Michigan this week as a fast-moving clipper storm from the Rockies moves across the Plains into the Great Lakes.