Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - During this abbreviated and busy Thanksgiving holiday week, the weather pattern will be active, with chances of lake effect rain and some spotty snow showers across the region.

The Thanksgiving day storm will largely be out of the East by sunrise but lake-effect snow will start up for areas downwind of the Great Lakes as Arctic air rushes over the record-warm lakes.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — 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 ...