DETROIT - One of the biggest winter storms in years is hitting a huge swath of the United States this weekend, stretching from the Rockies east to Boston and New York, and reaching south as far as the Carolinas and Tennessee.

Peak snowfall will be Sunday afternoon toward dinnertime, particularly from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. The main snow will then start to move out with lake effect snow showers lingering near the Lake Huron shoreline. The intensity of lake effect snow will be lessened thanks to the amount of ice currently on the Great Lakes.

If you were looking for relief from the bone-chilling temperatures that have frozen Michigan the past week, you'll have to wait awhile longer for any sort of refuge.

The National Weather Service released a winter weather advisory at 2:52 p.m. EST on Saturday valid from 10 p.m. EST until Sunday 10 p.m. EST for Eaton, Van Buren and Kalamazoo counties.

Michigan is under several weather warnings Thursday, Jan. 22, for the dangerous wind chills and snow. See local advisories and live radar.

Lake-effect snow continues to hammer parts of Michigan as Arctic air remains locked over the Great Lakes, keeping snow bands active and dangerous wind chills.

Dangerously cold conditions continue across Michigan through Saturday morning, with wind chill values plummeting to 30 to 45 degrees below zero in some areas - the coldest temperatures since January 2019.

Jackie Gaddie and Craig Pietruszewski had been anticipating the trip of a lifetime, to Antarctica of all places. Then, a storm got in the way.