Black Friday is giving way to a white weekend in parts of New York state. The first big snow of the season has the potential to bury towns along lakes Erie and Ontario during a hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend.

Western New York has been plagued with at least three feet of snow in some areas, amid lake-effect snow warnings. The National Weather Service office in Buffalo, New York, expected some snowfall totals to top 4 feet by Monday,

MADISON, Ohio - Great Lakes communities were pummeled with snow this weekend as unusually warm weather plunged into a lake-effect snow event that is expected to continue until Monday. At least 30 inches had fallen in several places in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and along Lake Erie’s shore in northern Pennsylvania and western New York,