As biting cold temperatures sweep across a large swath of the US, parts of the Great Lakes face up to two feet of additional lake-effect snow through Tuesday – the latest complication for cities already blanketed by snowfall amid post-Thanksgiving travel.

Winds out of the northwest will bring persistent lake-effect snow to West Michigan Monday with the highest totals expected along the southwest Michigan lakeshore.

WINTER STORM WATCH FOR LAKESHORE COUNTIES begins late tonight. Drivers should expect conditions to significantly deteriorate throughout the day beginning with the Monday morning commute.

Lake-effect snow blanketed swaths of the U.S. as Thanksgiving travelers journeyed home this holiday weekend, with more snow expected to fall over the Great Lakes region through the week

Accumulating snow and tricky travel expected in the heaviest bands, particularly along a line from Grand Haven to Battle Creek and back to the lakeshore.

Lake-effect snowfall - buffeted from the Great Lakes to the Upper Peninsula and western Michigan, northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania and portions of Upstate New York - is expected to continue into Monday, when the location of the heaviest snow bands are forecast to shift slightly southward.

The first big snow of the season threatened to bury towns in New York along lakes Erie and Ontario during a hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend.

A high-impact lake-effect snowstorm has brought feet of snow to communities along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York, and another foot or more of snow is likely to fall in some of those same communities by the time the paralyzing event concludes early this week.

An intense lake effect is forecast through the rest of the weekend, causing as much as 1 to 2 feet of additional snow in some areas.