The governor of Pennsylvania has signed a disaster emergency declaration and reported that parts of Erie County in the northwest have received nearly a meter of snow, with more expected to fall until Monday night.

Officials in upstate New York counties have declared a state of emergency as they prepare for a major snowstorm that has already dumped over two feet of snow in the Midwest and is forecast to accumulate more this weekend.

Near Buffalo, between 10 and 20 inches of lake effect snow is expected by the end of Sunday, according to the Weather Service. The southern part of Erie County, along with Wyoming, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, are predicted to see 2 to 4 feet of snow by Monday night.

Erie County, where the Buffalo Bills take to the field Sunday, is among the counties forecast to get feet of snow.

Chautauqua County has been placed under a state of emergency, along with several other counties in Western New York following a tempest of snowfall across the region. On Friday evening, New York Gov.

As millions continue to dig out from a massive lake effect snowstorm, western New York and Pennsylvania braced for another storm expected later in the week. Millions more on the East Coast were in the grip of a late-autumn freeze.

Temperatures will be 10 to 15 degrees below average over much of the Midwest and East. Even Florida is shivering.