Snow set to make return visit

Here we go again, but the next weather system moving in doesn’t figure to be quite as bad as the ones that crippled travel and closed schools last month.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch – but not a warning – for all of Western New York, from about 10 p.m. Tuesday to 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Forecasters are calling for potential accumulations of 6 to 10 inches of snow, with visibility less than half a mile at times and sustained winds of 15 to 20 mph.

Temperatures, though, are expected to be more moderate, with anticipated highs of about 26 degrees Tuesday and Wednesday, with overnight lows expected to hit 12 degrees tonight, 23 Tuesday night and 11 Wednesday night.

And those are all above zero.

This time we can’t blame the usual culprit, lake-effect snow.

“Unlike what we’re used to here in Western New York, this is a synoptic system,” National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Kelly said, referring to a more large-scale system.

The storm system still was developing out west this morning, creating uncertainty about how much snow will fall and where it will hit hardest.

“It’s too early to tell at this point,” Kelly said.

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